If you buy from a vendor like Fictionwise it's trivial to keep a record of the keys that your DRM enabled books are valid with, because you put them into the site to enable your downloads to work with any of several devices.
Given that the encryption is documented, and you have the key that decrypts it, why is it a big deal (in that particular case)
When phones were newer it was just a matter of looking at the first 3 digits in some places. Back in my hometown in the mid 90s almost all of the local land line numbers were sure to be a certain couple prefixes, whereas the numbers you got from Verizon were different
They weren't a great choice, but is there really a choice for a nationwide GSM carrier? T-mobile seems lacking and Cricket only covers highway corridors and cities (in my area at least)
"Maybe you guys instantly thought Crohn's, but there are plenty of other rarer diseases it could have been. Without a positive biopsy it would have been incredibly immoral to slap a Crohn's diagnosis on this girl and medicated her for it"
If the symptoms match, why would it be immoral to attempt to treat for the most likely candidate to see what happens as opposed to letting someone suffer because you can't figure out what the fuck else it might be?
If we weren't forced to use a machine laden with bloated virus scanners, machine inventory apps and all manner of other corporate crap to do potentially resource intensive development work we wouldn't ask for upgrades as often;)
I surely recognize that even a small amount of supplementary money could be a great help in buying food (for example) but my fear is that in a household where money skills are likely to be poor, the sum will be treated as a "excess" or whatever you care to call it, and rather than being budgeted to buy cheap staples (Beans, rice, etc) or healthy produce, would be blown as a "treat" on sodas, fast food or other such things.
Really what I was trying to get at is that the general idea that however special you may be in whatever respect, you don't always get to be a special case as far as an institution is concerned: Your son is assigned homework, I'm assigned training. We both know the material back to front without it, but if we ignore it anyway, his grades suffer, I get reprimanded.
Depends on one's access to weapons and forethought really. If it's got to happen RIGHT NOW and there's not a firearm handy hanging might seem like the best idea.
that's a little unclever. You can't "fix" a county full of Southern Baptists wanting to teach Creation in science class or convince them that yes reading IS important no matter how "good they got by" without it, no matter how determined you are, short of killing them all and starting over. On a certain level there absolutely does need to be overarching mandate to what gets taught and how, otherwise certain parts of the country, small towns in particular will go straight back to the dark ages.
Giving them a little bit of money now and then doesn't really help either, unless they're educated enough to be able to do something useful with it (and the parents, who may ultimately end up with this money, as well)
An associates degree in astrophysics is quite likely most of the state's general education requirements (6 creds of science, 6 of english, etc) plus a couple credits of astronomy and physics. In other words, nothing like what a university degree in astrophysics is (Is there even an undergrad degree in astrophysics at any accredited university?)
The thing is, if there's a screwup like that at an ATM, I'm pretty sure the bank sends a few guys around to those responsible to have a "chat" with a sockfull of quarters and maybe a power drill.
I imagine the OP meant when you visit an openID site you haven't been to before--then Noscript blocks it by default as a cross site thingie. Which you then whitelist and have no more problems with.
"I find it appalling how careless most people are with electronics"
I think many people simply don't think of the cost of an object unless they bought it themselves.
I've been asked why I don't let anyone else hold/use my DSLR, to which I reply "are you prepared to replace the body for $800 or the lens for $400?" The realization that it is a somewhat delicate, pretty expensive piece of kit usually shuts them up.
"Waitaminute, here's what I don't get. What's wrong with buying the CD?"
Because the OP doesn't want the whole Cd, he just wants the one song. Didn't you know that we all have the right to demand media be made available for purchase in just the format/segmentation we want it? (And if those requirements aren't met then copyright infringement is practically mandatory, i mean i WANTED to buy that one song, i really did.)
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If you buy from a vendor like Fictionwise it's trivial to keep a record of the keys that your DRM enabled books are valid with, because you put them into the site to enable your downloads to work with any of several devices.
Given that the encryption is documented, and you have the key that decrypts it, why is it a big deal (in that particular case)
You pay local taxes, dontcha?
When phones were newer it was just a matter of looking at the first 3 digits in some places. Back in my hometown in the mid 90s almost all of the local land line numbers were sure to be a certain couple prefixes, whereas the numbers you got from Verizon were different
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They weren't a great choice, but is there really a choice for a nationwide GSM carrier? T-mobile seems lacking and Cricket only covers highway corridors and cities (in my area at least)
"Maybe you guys instantly thought Crohn's, but there are plenty of other rarer diseases it could have been. Without a positive biopsy it would have been incredibly immoral to slap a Crohn's diagnosis on this girl and medicated her for it"
If the symptoms match, why would it be immoral to attempt to treat for the most likely candidate to see what happens as opposed to letting someone suffer because you can't figure out what the fuck else it might be?
I don't think electronic countermeasures are gonna help in this case.
If we weren't forced to use a machine laden with bloated virus scanners, machine inventory apps and all manner of other corporate crap to do potentially resource intensive development work we wouldn't ask for upgrades as often ;)
Then they ask you computer questions at lunch. Fuck that.
I should have replied more in detail:
I surely recognize that even a small amount of supplementary money could be a great help in buying food (for example) but my fear is that in a household where money skills are likely to be poor, the sum will be treated as a "excess" or whatever you care to call it, and rather than being budgeted to buy cheap staples (Beans, rice, etc) or healthy produce, would be blown as a "treat" on sodas, fast food or other such things.
Really what I was trying to get at is that the general idea that however special you may be in whatever respect, you don't always get to be a special case as far as an institution is concerned: Your son is assigned homework, I'm assigned training. We both know the material back to front without it, but if we ignore it anyway, his grades suffer, I get reprimanded.
Depends on one's access to weapons and forethought really. If it's got to happen RIGHT NOW and there's not a firearm handy hanging might seem like the best idea.
that's a little unclever. You can't "fix" a county full of Southern Baptists wanting to teach Creation in science class or convince them that yes reading IS important no matter how "good they got by" without it, no matter how determined you are, short of killing them all and starting over. On a certain level there absolutely does need to be overarching mandate to what gets taught and how, otherwise certain parts of the country, small towns in particular will go straight back to the dark ages.
"I don't buy the BS that homework is an important life lesson"
Having to harden up and do shit you don't enjoy sure is an important life lesson. If you don't think so, your life's been pretty easy so far.
Giving them a little bit of money now and then doesn't really help either, unless they're educated enough to be able to do something useful with it (and the parents, who may ultimately end up with this money, as well)
An associates degree in astrophysics is quite likely most of the state's general education requirements (6 creds of science, 6 of english, etc) plus a couple credits of astronomy and physics. In other words, nothing like what a university degree in astrophysics is (Is there even an undergrad degree in astrophysics at any accredited university?)
The thing is, if there's a screwup like that at an ATM, I'm pretty sure the bank sends a few guys around to those responsible to have a "chat" with a sockfull of quarters and maybe a power drill.
"America's classic redneck, blow-hard, compensation-for-a-little-something"
That'd be the F250 IMO. Hummer screams status-obsessed doctor, not obnoxious redneck.
I imagine the OP meant when you visit an openID site you haven't been to before--then Noscript blocks it by default as a cross site thingie. Which you then whitelist and have no more problems with.
They assume the government knows best and it's for their own good, for the most part.
I think this is a really nice summary of most of the sales profession.
"I find it appalling how careless most people are with electronics"
I think many people simply don't think of the cost of an object unless they bought it themselves.
I've been asked why I don't let anyone else hold/use my DSLR, to which I reply "are you prepared to replace the body for $800 or the lens for $400?" The realization that it is a somewhat delicate, pretty expensive piece of kit usually shuts them up.
Well, they just believe they're right, see.
This can't be modded high enough, thanks for taking the time to post.
"Waitaminute, here's what I don't get. What's wrong with buying the CD?"
Because the OP doesn't want the whole Cd, he just wants the one song. Didn't you know that we all have the right to demand media be made available for purchase in just the format/segmentation we want it? (And if those requirements aren't met then copyright infringement is practically mandatory, i mean i WANTED to buy that one song, i really did.)