I once got access to the unencrypted password file for a widely used site. It was rather disturbing -- and not just because the passwords were unencrypted ("It's fur customer service purposes!"). Literally 10% of the users had 'password' as their password.
I guess that it wasn't quite as bad as the network service provider that had 'password' as the password through their firewall.. I mean, why even have the thing, to begin with?
No problem with code signing, per se. Big problem with using Code signing to lock in market control and limit people's control of their own machine. -- Especilly the signatures are controlled by a company with an abysmal history of code security.
Microsoft-controlled code-signing is like putting 3 bulky padlocks on a house with big, open windows.
To just read the headlines and then complain that they were abit misleading is stupid.
Headlines are way less detailed than the actual article which provides the caveats... even though the artiicle is the length of an oversized abstract, the headlines are an abstract of that. That there are crucial details left out of the headlines shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
A lot of this fight has been portrayed as ISPs valiantly fighting to keep bandwidth at the same pace as data consumption. I think it's actually the other way 'round. It's data consumption that's been fighting to keep with with bandwidth availability. Back in the early '80s when I was just starting in the computing world, I ran into a principle:
Programs will expand to fill all available memory
I think it's the same with bandwidth.
Back as far as the mid '80s people had long been complaining that the 'net was about to collapse under it's own weight as data usage was ever ramping up. -- but, somehow, bandwidth technology seemed to magically always keep just ahead of the usage curve.... but if you look at it the other way round -- that bandwidth consumption is always going to expand to fit bandwidth availability... that as long as the 'net is "fast enough", people will start doing things that consume the available space -- the magic suddenly disappears. I'm not going to stream netflix movies unless my data connection is fast enough.. I'll just rip my DVD's to a 16GB SD card, and watch movies that way on the way to work. I'lll only do those things if the bandwidth is fast enough, and not disturbingly expensive for my budget.
Netflix wouldn't have survived 15 years ago when the last mile for 99% of the public was a 33Kilobit/second modem, and downloading a 50 megabyte short film took about 4 hours. That's the main reason why it didn't exist back then.
His argument is based on a resource consumption model. That's not the case here. If i use a megawatt-hour of power you have to burn more coal -- which is what I'm nominally paying for. If I eat 20 pounds of bananas, the box is then empty and you have to pay to grow more bananas..
If you ignore congestion (which he is arguing that this is not about), then eating bandwidth doesn't cost the ISP significantly more. There's no real incrimental cost difference between a pipe being 10% full and 20% full. Bandwidth caps, so far, have mostly been about directing customers to services that make the ISP more money -- "Skype bandwidth will cost you, but using my home phone service will be a lot chaper".
It was the high management and directors that put AIG in a position where it 'had to' accept the Government bail-out. They were free to walk away from the bail-out and go bankrupt.
It's not like this company had a lack of decent lawyers to go over the agreement.
If the government came out ahead on the deal then hurray for Obama.
Right. The top group -- making 40% of the country's income -- and with the highest proportion of discretionary income. is only paying 35% of the taxes. -- That leaves the other 99% of us making 60% of the income paying 65% of the taxes... and it gets worse, the lower down the scale you go -- especially if you subtract out the income needed to scrape out a minimally comfortable existence.
Gore tried to push the deal through before the new year to avoid paying higher taxes. He didn't succeed. But he's still an incredible hypocrite.
Do you really expect them to turn down the $Millions that they'd be able to keep by closing the deal a week earlier? Gore claimed to be a Democrat -- not an altruist, a martyr or a fool.
You don't usually get to be rich by turning down easy (and legal) money.
In this case, the deal wasn't closed before the deadline, so the higher tax rate is being paid. This is a far cry from creating foreign accounts or entities (mostly just paper tigers) to run the deal so as to avoid local taxes altogether.
$/99 plus a 5% sales tax would come to 1.04 with $.96 in change -- meaning that you'll now eed to buy a boat load of $.99 items to get to the 'below $.50 range that you claim most change sits in. In reality, most change ammounts should be randomly distributed.
It was a failure because the US didn't pull the $1 bill out of circulation.
it was also a failure because the $1 coin looked way too much like a quarter. I remember getting some $1coins at the time, and everybody (including me) mistook them for quarters. There were a few cases where I ended up paying $2 for a $1.25 snack. and didn't realize until later.
Canada put a good deal of work into making sure that the $1 coin was noticably different than other coins in circulation, and that went a long way in ensuring their acceptance.
Dell did a lot of work to make sure drivers were solid. Its not cheap to make a laptop have a perfect out of the box experience.
You're speaking from Windows experience. Windows can sometimes be an extreme pig getting various pieces of hardware working together (this is, however, somewhat old experience).
Unless you have hardware with no (or extremely young) Linux support, pretty much everything works well out of the box. Since Dell is making the maching, They'd be stupid to build it with known unsupported hardware. When I worked at free geek, we had a set of machines which did bulk installs onto hard drives which would be blindly placed into refurbished machines... The vast majority worked just peachy, unless they had known-unsupported hardware on their motherboards.
I'm with the people who would just buy the Windows version for $50 less and do the install myself. Ubuntu installs are pretty much trivial.
I'm Canadian, and I live in Canada (A few miles from the border). I obviously can't vote, and can't donate to either side, but I can take the time to call people and encourage them to vote -- and I'm going to do that. I've got unlimited US long distance, I might as well make use of it.
You might ask why a Canadian cares about the US election -- well what Washington does hase a real effect on what happens in Canada. As former Prime Minister Trudeau once said... It's like sleeping with an 800lb gorilla. When the US sneezes, Canada gets a cold. I've also got friends and relatives in the US who'll be
negatively affected if the Republicans get in and go forward with their promises to big business and the super wealthy.
Publish them all - including the newspaper publishers on her client list (if any). Perhaps they'll finally stop criminalizing prostitution, and regulate it properly.
The thing is about that is that -- Even if I'd have been 15, I'd have been no safer from the law -- Just a lot more surprised when they showed up at the door to take me away.
On the bright side, though (if you want to call it that), if we had a bad breakup, she wouldn't have been able to just call the cops and have me arrested. Althought I would have been guilty of possession, she would have been charged with production and distribution (even worse charges)!
Yeah. that's the point. Having those 'treasured family heirlooms' makes you a sex criminal.
I ran into a situation, a few years ago, where a 17 year old wanted to go out with me. This kinda wierded me out because she would have been the youngest girlfriend I'd had in a couple of decades. What really blew my mind, though, was that -- although it would have been perfectly legal (and likely) for us to have sex, If she were to send me sexy pictures of herself (much milder that what it was legal and likely for us to do in person), i would have ended up a sex criminal. I wouldn't even have to open up the emails to be charged and convicted.
Roth had, apparently requested that the Broyard allegation be removed and replaced by his own explanation. I would consider that censorship. Certainly, it's not inappropriate to ask for a reference to the incident in his friend Melvin Tumin's life. Tumin was cited as an expert in race relations in his New York Times Obituary. Roth claims that the 'spook' incident that anchors the book occured in 1985. By that time, Tumin had been teaching roughly 30 years in Princeton and would have been reasonably well known.
The probability of him being accused of racism escaping any documentation is rather low. Roth hunting down some of that documentation and citing it for Wikipedia would help settle the mini-feud properly, strengthen the public record for future historians and make Wikipedia that much better.
Then there's the question of motivation: Whether or not Roth is speaking honestly about the source of the books central incident, he could have reason to deny the Broyard allegation: If Roth's explanation is true he'd want the record set straight. If it's false he might want it erased to hide his embarrassment.
I'll ignore the fact that the source of the book (the 'spook' comment), and the source of a major sub-plot (the fictional 'fact' that Silk was part Black and 'passing' as white) are two entirely unrelated issues.
The fight is between science an creation in any case. If God created the universe, the earth and all creatures in 144 hours (6 days), there's no need for it to have occurred in the 'known' order either.
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I guess that it wasn't quite as bad as the network service provider that had 'password' as the password through their firewall.. I mean, why even have the thing, to begin with?
Microsoft-controlled code-signing is like putting 3 bulky padlocks on a house with big, open windows.
.....But then they're both rip-offs of the table of multiplication!
Dunno about you, I only memorized my multiplication tables up to about 2 digits, not 800.
Headlines are way less detailed than the actual article which provides the caveats... even though the artiicle is the length of an oversized abstract, the headlines are an abstract of that. That there are crucial details left out of the headlines shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
I always think that should have been 'getting laid' on your wedding day, and her business analyst forced her to change the line.
You realize, of course, that those passwords compile properly in perl?
Yoda ask -- answers he will give?
even Something like this" could screw up a grammer based guesser .
I think it's the same with bandwidth.
Back as far as the mid '80s people had long been complaining that the 'net was about to collapse under it's own weight as data usage was ever ramping up. -- but, somehow, bandwidth technology seemed to magically always keep just ahead of the usage curve. ... but if you look at it the other way round -- that bandwidth consumption is always going to expand to fit bandwidth availability ... that as long as the 'net is "fast enough", people will start doing things that consume the available space -- the magic suddenly disappears. I'm not going to stream netflix movies unless my data connection is fast enough .. I'll just rip my DVD's to a 16GB SD card, and watch movies that way on the way to work. I'lll only do those things if the bandwidth is fast enough, and not disturbingly expensive for my budget.
Netflix wouldn't have survived 15 years ago when the last mile for 99% of the public was a 33Kilobit/second modem, and downloading a 50 megabyte short film took about 4 hours. That's the main reason why it didn't exist back then.
If you ignore congestion (which he is arguing that this is not about), then eating bandwidth doesn't cost the ISP significantly more. There's no real incrimental cost difference between a pipe being 10% full and 20% full. Bandwidth caps, so far, have mostly been about directing customers to services that make the ISP more money -- "Skype bandwidth will cost you, but using my home phone service will be a lot chaper".
Shouldn't that be 'profreed'? Gotta go with the flow, yew know.
It's not like this company had a lack of decent lawyers to go over the agreement. If the government came out ahead on the deal then hurray for Obama.
, and complain to her that the 500,000th dollar per year you earn gets taxed at 50%.
This presumes that your accountant hasn't found a loophole that allows you to avoid paying any tax at all on that 500,000th dollar.
BTW: What's the source of your statistic?
Gore tried to push the deal through before the new year to avoid paying higher taxes. He didn't succeed. But he's still an incredible hypocrite.
Do you really expect them to turn down the $Millions that they'd be able to keep by closing the deal a week earlier? Gore claimed to be a Democrat -- not an altruist, a martyr or a fool. You don't usually get to be rich by turning down easy (and legal) money.
In this case, the deal wasn't closed before the deadline, so the higher tax rate is being paid. This is a far cry from creating foreign accounts or entities (mostly just paper tigers) to run the deal so as to avoid local taxes altogether.
At some point, you've got to stop complaining and just do the math. (or find a website to do it for you).
$/99 plus a 5% sales tax would come to 1.04 with $.96 in change -- meaning that you'll now eed to buy a boat load of $.99 items to get to the 'below $.50 range that you claim most change sits in. In reality, most change ammounts should be randomly distributed.
It was a failure because the US didn't pull the $1 bill out of circulation.
it was also a failure because the $1 coin looked way too much like a quarter. I remember getting some $1coins at the time, and everybody (including me) mistook them for quarters. There were a few cases where I ended up paying $2 for a $1.25 snack. and didn't realize until later.
Canada put a good deal of work into making sure that the $1 coin was noticably different than other coins in circulation, and that went a long way in ensuring their acceptance.
Dell did a lot of work to make sure drivers were solid. Its not cheap to make a laptop have a perfect out of the box experience.
You're speaking from Windows experience. Windows can sometimes be an extreme pig getting various pieces of hardware working together (this is, however, somewhat old experience).
Unless you have hardware with no (or extremely young) Linux support, pretty much everything works well out of the box. Since Dell is making the maching, They'd be stupid to build it with known unsupported hardware. When I worked at free geek, we had a set of machines which did bulk installs onto hard drives which would be blindly placed into refurbished machines... The vast majority worked just peachy, unless they had known-unsupported hardware on their motherboards.
I'm with the people who would just buy the Windows version for $50 less and do the install myself. Ubuntu installs are pretty much trivial.
You might ask why a Canadian cares about the US election -- well what Washington does hase a real effect on what happens in Canada. As former Prime Minister Trudeau once said ... It's like sleeping with an 800lb gorilla. When the US sneezes, Canada gets a cold. I've also got friends and relatives in the US who'll be
negatively affected if the Republicans get in and go forward with their promises to big business and the super wealthy.
Publish them all - including the newspaper publishers on her client list (if any). Perhaps they'll finally stop criminalizing prostitution, and regulate it properly.
On the bright side, though (if you want to call it that), if we had a bad breakup, she wouldn't have been able to just call the cops and have me arrested. Althought I would have been guilty of possession, she would have been charged with production and distribution (even worse charges)!
I ran into a situation, a few years ago, where a 17 year old wanted to go out with me. This kinda wierded me out because she would have been the youngest girlfriend I'd had in a couple of decades. What really blew my mind, though, was that -- although it would have been perfectly legal (and likely) for us to have sex, If she were to send me sexy pictures of herself (much milder that what it was legal and likely for us to do in person), i would have ended up a sex criminal. I wouldn't even have to open up the emails to be charged and convicted.
The probability of him being accused of racism escaping any documentation is rather low. Roth hunting down some of that documentation and citing it for Wikipedia would help settle the mini-feud properly, strengthen the public record for future historians and make Wikipedia that much better.
Then there's the question of motivation: Whether or not Roth is speaking honestly about the source of the books central incident, he could have reason to deny the Broyard allegation: If Roth's explanation is true he'd want the record set straight. If it's false he might want it erased to hide his embarrassment.
I'll ignore the fact that the source of the book (the 'spook' comment), and the source of a major sub-plot (the fictional 'fact' that Silk was part Black and 'passing' as white) are two entirely unrelated issues.
The fight is between science an creation in any case. If God created the universe, the earth and all creatures in 144 hours (6 days), there's no need for it to have occurred in the 'known' order either.
Mark Zuckerberg's criminal record has quietly disappeared from the Criminal Record Database. No explanation was forthcoming.