Reminds me of the the wonderful
voyage of a fleet of rubber ducklings, which went overboard from a Chinese container ship into the Pacific ocean, and eventually ended up on Canada's east coast 10 years later..
Spread spectrum is essentially unjammable, if done right (i.e. with cryptographically generated spreading sequences or some such cryptogeek mumbojumbo.)
Hmm, wouldn't work for TV satellites, whith millions receivers out there in the field. Just take one, reverse engineer it, and presto: you know the frequency hopping sequence!
All true, but I believe the point of the parent poster is: the 'evil corporations' are too cheap to replace every transponder on every satellite whenever a vulnerability is exploited.
Especially, since the only way of replacing these transponders is sending up a new satellite... (sending up the space shuttle with a crew to replace just the transponders is not doable, as the space shuttle does not go high enough)
Doesn't count. Was done using a regular ground station where Captain Midnight was temping. That's cheating. Like claiming you DOS'ed amazon, but in reality you're just a temp that had access to the power button of the server cluster...
Simple: don't bother with the seashells. Simply shout slurs and insults at the Communication Decency Act machine, and then use the tickets that it issues...
'Do you with to install "Gator, a program which places additional advertising onto webpages. Part of the revenue from this business goes back to the website you're trying to visit"'.
Which would be deceptive, because no part of the revenue will go back to the hijacked website. IMHO, this is even the major point of the whole issue.
Granted, those who are security-aware will have unsigned ActiveX and Scripting capabilities turned off.
Unsigned? And this is helping exactly how? Now that a court of justice has deemed these actions to be legal, what's going to stop Gator and its ilk to get a real signature for their ActiveX? So they can also infect the computers of those IE users who think they are "smart" by disallowing execution of just the unsigned ActiveX's. Smart users disallow execution of all ActiveX. Smarter users use mozilla.
It should only be illegal if they force you against your will to wear said glasses. Then again, forcing people to do things against their will is generally illegal as is.
Forcing them? What about duping them? As in telling them that these are X-ray glasses, allowing them to see through clothes, but all they do is switch ads on billboards. In that case, the situation gets much more muddy, and probably none of the victims is going to complain, for fear of being exposed as a peeping Tom...
If I put up a billboard (or rent one for a month), and my competitor comes around and puts his ad overtop of mine, thats vandalism.
More like a garage who surreptously replaces windshields of cars brought in for repairs with "special HUD enhanced" windshields that electronically alter the contents of highway-side billboards seen through it.
Or a sleezy salesmen that sells X-ray glasses. However, the glasses won't allow you to see the babes naked, but instead just substitude the billboard ads you look at.
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The SPA gives you permission to "copy this video for the non-profit purpose of promoting the ethical and legal use of software."
They don't give you permission to "copy this video for the despicable purpose of mocking the most venerable SPA organization."
I'm sure the fact that it's a sure bet has nothing to do with it.
A sure bet? The fact? You must be kidding, it's been down the toilet since December 1999 (except for a brief rally in March 2000 due to the Xbox announcement)
There is no way MS's cash hoard could be used responsibly in its entirety for R&D unless they are interested in putting a man on Mars. Hey, come to think of it that's not a bad idea...
I think I know about which man you are thinking...;-) Dream on, $36B would unfortunately be enough to take care of the return flight as well...
Good, now go to Dell or HPaq and try the same trick.
HPaq will refund you 120 euro for your unwanted windows without a problem (at least if you live in France or Benelux. Other European countries probably too).
Well, although nobody seems to know what it was for,
Well that photo is so well known that davmoo must have known about it. But I think he just didn't have tge URL handy, and he knew that just saying "I cannot find even one reference of Bill Gates having been charged with a crime, much less convicted of one." was the best way of finding that one reference and URL he lost;-) It's called trolling... You throw out the bait, and then you reel the fish in...
Yes, and in both cases, the/.-centric summary would be valid.
Exactly. The element that our "Insightful" AC missed is that the situation has changed between the two behaviors:
Before (when MSFT payed no dividend), stock price of MSFT was experiencing an exponential growth (until end of 1999), and no dividend was needed to justify the share price. As dividends incur tax, it was smarter for BG to not pay any dividends, but rather rely on stock buy-backs.
Now (that MSFT has started paying dividends), stock price of MSFT has been flatlining for a while (or even outright falling), and stock buy-backs are no longer enough to prop up the share price (or they would be prohibitively expensive). So MSFT has to rely on more "traditional" ways of share price management: paying dividends. For the shareholder (which include BG himself...), a taxed dividend is still preferable than now dividend at all plus a falling share price.
==> it's not a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" type of situation, its simply that external circumstances have changed. And taking into account the changing situations, both behaviours can be labelled as greedy.
Moreover, he might hope that the dividend payment might prop up the falling stock price.
Stock price is justified by the profit potential of a share. For instance, if you expect a share to yield 6 cents of profit per year, and current interest rates is 3%, you'd be ready to spend $2 for that share (3% of $2 is 6 cents). (This simplistic calculation needs of course need to be adjusted for risk: you expect your shares to pay higher interest rates than your savings account, because they carry higher risk ==> so you'd probably put a price less than $2 on the share..)
For a non-growing share, all profit you can expect from a share is dividend. Thus higher dividend means better share price.
For a growth stock, profit is not only the dividend, but also the price increase of the share itself. In a way, the share price feeds itself... until the bubble bursts. That's why until recently, MS didn't pay any dividend at all: its exponential growth was justification enough for its "value". However, since 1999, MSFT's share price has been more or less flat (or even, falling), thus growth can no longer justify what little value remains. MSFT has to pay a dividend to stop the downfall.
Of course, smart economists may realize why MSFT is paying these huge dividends (because the stock would suck otherwise), and the move might have just the opposite effect...
Bill Parish has an interesting writeup about this. The report is quite old (November 1999), so many of those things that have already come to pass are still predictions...
A more up to date press list can be found here (not all references articles are about MSFT, but most are...)
Why not make in-horizontal-plane-O loops of belt, rather than vertical ones? Sure, if they had width(and they would), you'd have to overlap panels or something to turn corners, but since you'll probably want 2-way travel anwyay..
This seems to be exactly
what they did in Paris, 100 years ago. Notice the poles. Notice the circular sections in the walkway. Those circular sections allow horizontal rotations at the endpoints (just think how some types of baggage claim conveyor belts at airports work)
The question was what do Australians drink and the answer is that they drink more VB than any other beer. VB alone accounts for 25% of Australias beer market.
That doesn't mean it's the best beer.
Correct. Probably more people program in Visual Basic than Java, Perl and Php combined.
That doesn't mean VB is the best programming language, either...
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Reminds me of the the wonderful voyage of a fleet of rubber ducklings, which went overboard from a Chinese container ship into the Pacific ocean, and eventually ended up on Canada's east coast 10 years later..
Hmm, wouldn't work for TV satellites, whith millions receivers out there in the field. Just take one, reverse engineer it, and presto: you know the frequency hopping sequence!
Especially, since the only way of replacing these transponders is sending up a new satellite... (sending up the space shuttle with a crew to replace just the transponders is not doable, as the space shuttle does not go high enough)
Doesn't count. Was done using a regular ground station where Captain Midnight was temping. That's cheating. Like claiming you DOS'ed amazon, but in reality you're just a temp that had access to the power button of the server cluster...
Hmm, what's the difference? Tim spent more time in the regular army than in the militia
Yes you would... Just use a real browser. That's what the second acl line does...
Simple: don't bother with the seashells. Simply shout slurs and insults at the Communication Decency Act machine, and then use the tickets that it issues...
Which would be deceptive, because no part of the revenue will go back to the hijacked website. IMHO, this is even the major point of the whole issue.
Unsigned? And this is helping exactly how? Now that a court of justice has deemed these actions to be legal, what's going to stop Gator and its ilk to get a real signature for their ActiveX? So they can also infect the computers of those IE users who think they are "smart" by disallowing execution of just the unsigned ActiveX's. Smart users disallow execution of all ActiveX. Smarter users use mozilla.
Too bad Claritin isn't a prescription drug. Gawd, were those ads annoying. Especially the one with the guy locked into the car trunk...
Forcing them? What about duping them? As in telling them that these are X-ray glasses, allowing them to see through clothes, but all they do is switch ads on billboards. In that case, the situation gets much more muddy, and probably none of the victims is going to complain, for fear of being exposed as a peeping Tom...
More like a garage who surreptously replaces windshields of cars brought in for repairs with "special HUD enhanced" windshields that electronically alter the contents of highway-side billboards seen through it.
Or a sleezy salesmen that sells X-ray glasses. However, the glasses won't allow you to see the babes naked, but instead just substitude the billboard ads you look at.
They don't give you permission to "copy this video for the despicable purpose of mocking the most venerable SPA organization."
A sure bet? The fact? You must be kidding, it's been down the toilet since December 1999 (except for a brief rally in March 2000 due to the Xbox announcement)
I think I know about which man you are thinking... ;-) Dream on, $36B would unfortunately be enough to take care of the return flight as well...
Both showed up at Score 1. Maybe just random Slashdot slowness?
But he forgot to put quotes around "charities". That should redeam him in the astroturfer's eyes.
Nope. But it does make a 280 Euro computer. HP does refund you 120 Euro if you don't want Windows.
HPaq will refund you 120 euro for your unwanted windows without a problem (at least if you live in France or Benelux. Other European countries probably too).
Desktop PC's: yes, without a problem.
But just try buying an OS-less laptop for a decent price. That's a market that BIll still has under tight control.
Well that photo is so well known that davmoo must have known about it. But I think he just didn't have tge URL handy, and he knew that just saying "I cannot find even one reference of Bill Gates having been charged with a crime, much less convicted of one." was the best way of finding that one reference and URL he lost ;-) It's called trolling... You throw out the bait, and then you reel the fish in...
Exactly. The element that our "Insightful" AC missed is that the situation has changed between the two behaviors:
- Before (when MSFT payed no dividend), stock price of MSFT was experiencing an exponential growth (until end of 1999), and no dividend was needed to justify the share price. As dividends incur tax, it was smarter for BG to not pay any dividends, but rather rely on stock buy-backs.
- Now (that MSFT has started paying dividends), stock price of MSFT has been flatlining for a while (or even outright falling), and stock buy-backs are no longer enough to prop up the share price (or they would be prohibitively expensive). So MSFT has to rely on more "traditional" ways of share price management: paying dividends. For the shareholder (which include BG himself...), a taxed dividend is still preferable than now dividend at all plus a falling share price.
==> it's not a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" type of situation, its simply that external circumstances have changed. And taking into account the changing situations, both behaviours can be labelled as greedy.Stock price is justified by the profit potential of a share. For instance, if you expect a share to yield 6 cents of profit per year, and current interest rates is 3%, you'd be ready to spend $2 for that share (3% of $2 is 6 cents). (This simplistic calculation needs of course need to be adjusted for risk: you expect your shares to pay higher interest rates than your savings account, because they carry higher risk ==> so you'd probably put a price less than $2 on the share..)
For a non-growing share, all profit you can expect from a share is dividend. Thus higher dividend means better share price.
For a growth stock, profit is not only the dividend, but also the price increase of the share itself. In a way, the share price feeds itself... until the bubble bursts. That's why until recently, MS didn't pay any dividend at all: its exponential growth was justification enough for its "value". However, since 1999, MSFT's share price has been more or less flat (or even, falling), thus growth can no longer justify what little value remains. MSFT has to pay a dividend to stop the downfall.
Of course, smart economists may realize why MSFT is paying these huge dividends (because the stock would suck otherwise), and the move might have just the opposite effect...
Bill Parish has an interesting writeup about this. The report is quite old (November 1999), so many of those things that have already come to pass are still predictions...
A more up to date press list can be found here (not all references articles are about MSFT, but most are...)
This seems to be exactly what they did in Paris, 100 years ago. Notice the poles. Notice the circular sections in the walkway. Those circular sections allow horizontal rotations at the endpoints (just think how some types of baggage claim conveyor belts at airports work)
That doesn't mean it's the best beer.
Correct. Probably more people program in Visual Basic than Java, Perl and Php combined.
That doesn't mean VB is the best programming language, either...