I'm not sure how in the hell capitalists here in the U.S. decided we could do fair business with a totalitarian communist nation. They don't value workers rights, free speech, or even a fair marketplace.
The US capitalists shouldn't worry: the totalitarian communist nation don't put a lot of value into those things either.
Agreed. It's stupid and downright Quixotic to hang on to their passwords because of "Policy" when he knows the requestors are the legitimate owners of the equipment.
The right thing to do would have been to say "By policy, you can't have the password, but I have provided the password to N.N. as I am allowed to do that. Talk to her/him."
Give it another 10 years and they might get it sorted properly. It took some 20 years for HDTV to become a reality. I saw an impressive Sony setup at Telecom 87 in Geneva. 20yrs later and it is ready for consumer use.
If you have more cash than sense then buy a 3D TV rig. Better be prepared to throw it all away when a decent system is standardised.
You know, if it takes 10-20 years until a proper standard is deviced, it is actually not a bad idea to buy a 3D system now. 10 years is a pretty good life span for home electronics.
Buying the Pirate Bay is a terrible business decision.
Not so terrible if they bought the Pirate Bay for the purposes of manipulating the share price. The share price went up significantly, and for the "lucky" souls who bought before the announcement and sold on the news, this has been good business.
However it didn't soar as much as the CEO expected. Part of the payment would be in the company's own stock, and that payment assumed a valuation of the company at 1 billion SEK. It's magnitudes less, around 60 million. And even that valuation is crazy, because the company is so poor that it doesn't even pay its debts.
The company is very suspicous and the investors are either stupid or blind. At least one of the board members have left GGF since the deal was announced. The last two auditors left a "tainted" audit that they were not satisfied. The auditors also had to go to the government collection agency to even get paid. These are not signs of a healthy company.
when the law was passed in 1938, 'work' was easy to define for hourly employees, said Mr. McCoy.
It is quite easy to define 'work' for employees in any field in 2009. If management don't want perform the task themselves and someone e, then it's work.
When total cost of deployment is less than the savings resulting from the use of Win7, a company will switch.
In other words: Not until Win XP is no longer a viable choice.
There are no savings resulting from the use of Win7. There are only migration and implementation costs.
Most enterprises have their apps certified on the XP platform. It takes hundreds if not thousands of man hours to update and verify functionality of each app. Not to mention that many enterprise applications such as SAP or Cisco does not support 64-bit Windows 7. 64-bit support for all enterprise apps is a dead-sure requirement for any enterprise considering a full upgrade to Win 7.
For a typical enterprise with 2000 deployed applications, this turns into a migration nightmare. The budget runs into the millions.
Note that migration cost for enterprises have nothing to do with windows 7 licensing. The software assurance means they're paying for windows 7 already, but prefer to stay on Windows XP just in order to avoid said migration costs.
I don't think we'll see wide-spread deployment of windows 7 until 2012-2013. "Sales" in 2010 will probably look OK though due to software assurance.
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz continues to promote... says the downturn in the economy will only boost the momentum...That's creating massive opportunity for those of us who have pioneered the market, to drive commercial opportunities... We announced just last week that...
So in other words, A high-level spokesperson for [vendor X] is quoted as saying that [recent event] is really good for [vendor X] business, and that recently released [product Y] is positioned perfectly for current market conditions.
Equilibrium price is where the supply curve (amount willing to be produced for a unit price) intersects demand curve (amount willing to be purchased for a unit price).
Whoa, you think that the US has that much pull on the Swedish courts?
There are precedents.
The US has previosly interfered with the Swedish justice system, using political pressure on the Swedish Minister of Justice and other political officials.
Another 2TB drive. They're cheap enough to keep a spare around.
The problem with that is of course that mirroring simply mirrors problems on the primary drive to the secondary drive. So you end up with two working drives with broken data on it.
even if you don't have anything illegal on the phone - they have something to charge you with.
This will come in handy in the War Against Terror. The foreigners will have cell phones purchased outside the US and they might now click. They can now be sent of to Gitmo for possesion of a weapon of mass imaging. US 1 - Baddies 0.
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This was overheard in London:
The English Banker to the Icelandic representative for Kaupthing Bank:
We said we wanted CASH... not ash!
I feel a a sudden urge to say "correlation != causation" in response to this statement.
The US capitalists shouldn't worry: the totalitarian communist nation don't put a lot of value into those things either.
Given that humans have only been in existence on earth for 200K Years, why is it that no aliens have colonised Earth *before* we got here?
They did 75 billion years ago, colonizing Earth using DC-8s to travel here as Scientology scripture tells us.
Agreed. It's stupid and downright Quixotic to hang on to their passwords because of "Policy" when he knows the requestors are the legitimate owners of the equipment.
The right thing to do would have been to say "By policy, you can't have the password, but I have provided the password to N.N. as I am allowed to do that. Talk to her/him."
Made under the control of the German Purity Law?
Will it be involved in some botnet tournament, fighting over Linksys, D-Link and Netgear routers in a winner takes all competition?
That would be the "Highlander" botnet
You know, if it takes 10-20 years until a proper standard is deviced, it is actually not a bad idea to buy a 3D system now. 10 years is a pretty good life span for home electronics.
How about dictation,
Double the killer select all
Brightkite already has a pretty decent, open location-based API, and it interfaces to twitter and facebook.
Can someone who knows about it explain what the difference between brightkite's localization and twitter's ?
Buying the Pirate Bay is a terrible business decision.
Not so terrible if they bought the Pirate Bay for the purposes of manipulating the share price. The share price went up significantly, and for the "lucky" souls who bought before the announcement and sold on the news, this has been good business.
However it didn't soar as much as the CEO expected. Part of the payment would be in the company's own stock, and that payment assumed a valuation of the company at 1 billion SEK. It's magnitudes less, around 60 million. And even that valuation is crazy, because the company is so poor that it doesn't even pay its debts.
The company is very suspicous and the investors are either stupid or blind. At least one of the board members have left GGF since the deal was announced. The last two auditors left a "tainted" audit that they were not satisfied. The auditors also had to go to the government collection agency to even get paid. These are not signs of a healthy company.
Classic pump and dump scam, I think.
Yes! I look forward to him winning The International Obfuscated C Code Contest. Now THAT's a real challenge for any programmer. And so much more fun for the spectators.
It takes absolutely zero effort for this post to be modded funny
It doesn't take much to be modded informative either.
It is quite easy to define 'work' for employees in any field in 2009. If management don't want perform the task themselves and someone e, then it's work.
I think the real fail was the cops hauling the machine away without asking for help from the Defcon attendees.
The true FAIL was the Defcon attendees failing to spot and realize that the cops hauling the machines away were fake, and the ATM was real.
Then there would be a slashdot article "why the photos on wikipedia are so bad".
When total cost of deployment is less than the savings resulting from the use of Win7, a company will switch.
In other words: Not until Win XP is no longer a viable choice.
There are no savings resulting from the use of Win7. There are only migration and implementation costs.
Most enterprises have their apps certified on the XP platform. It takes hundreds if not thousands of man hours to update and verify functionality of each app. Not to mention that many enterprise applications such as SAP or Cisco does not support 64-bit Windows 7. 64-bit support for all enterprise apps is a dead-sure requirement for any enterprise considering a full upgrade to Win 7.
For a typical enterprise with 2000 deployed applications, this turns into a migration nightmare. The budget runs into the millions.
Note that migration cost for enterprises have nothing to do with windows 7 licensing. The software assurance means they're paying for windows 7 already, but prefer to stay on Windows XP just in order to avoid said migration costs.
I don't think we'll see wide-spread deployment of windows 7 until 2012-2013.
"Sales" in 2010 will probably look OK though due to software assurance.
Nobody seems to have gotten the joke.
Can we look forward to a Bruce & Tommy Tutone duet?
Mr. Hawking has contributed man things to the fields of science
That Penthouse magazine subscription that he sent to Kip Thorne was to settle the black hole bet, nothing else, damnit.
For large ships, there's also software than can plan the optimal passage by simulating and optimizing routes for given arrival times while minimizing fuel consumption and avoiding weather damage.
So in other words, A high-level spokesperson for [vendor X] is quoted as saying that [recent event] is really good for [vendor X] business, and that recently released [product Y] is positioned perfectly for current market conditions.
What a surprise.
Equilibrium price is where the supply curve (amount willing to be produced for a unit price) intersects demand curve (amount willing to be purchased for a unit price).
And on the internet, the two shall never meet.
Whoa, you think that the US has that much pull on the Swedish courts?
There are precedents.
The US has previosly interfered with the Swedish justice system, using political pressure on the Swedish Minister of Justice and other political officials.
Examples of such events are the Scientology trial against Zenon Panoussis when individual Congress members pressured Sweden and a second example is when Sweden's Minister of Justice after being pressured allowed CIA operatives to detain and deport Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery to Egypt, where they were imprisoned, beaten, and tortured.
Another 2TB drive. They're cheap enough to keep a spare around.
The problem with that is of course that mirroring simply mirrors problems on the primary drive to the secondary drive. So you end up with two working drives with broken data on it.
It's the data you want backed up, not the drive.
even if you don't have anything illegal on the phone - they have something to charge you with.
This will come in handy in the War Against Terror. The foreigners will have cell phones purchased outside the US and they might now click. They can now be sent of to Gitmo for possesion of a weapon of mass imaging. US 1 - Baddies 0.