'No! Social security will continue to operate as normal. If Congress does not authorize additional funding, you can expect to receive seventy cents on the dollar.'
So the post office and their printer didn't accept their 70% offer. They should just have mailed out 70% of the Statements (those are still good odds imo).
It's too bad they didn't seem to take into account operating expenses when they did this little back-of-the-enveloppe calculation. How can they pay out seventy cents on the dollars when the most visible part of their operation grinds to a halt at the first sign of lack of funds? Or is this a political tactic on their part, a way to rally the people to put pressure on politicians?
You should have submitted the papers anyway. It doesn't matter if they're properly filled out, or not. It's not like they were going to reimburse you anyway. You fill out the papers, so that at least, your incident gets recorded in their statistics.
Often times, authorities try to dissuade you from filling out paperwork, bad statistics make their bosses look bad, but then again, if no incident is ever recorded or filed, it's as if your incident never even officially occurred.
I agree. They probably do. Any event that has a 10,000 people RSVP'ing to it, would probably require a permit or something, and the appropriate number of porta-potties. Worst case scenario, have the small hosting city ban public parking on the surrounding streets for that day, call in hundreds of private tow trucks, and sell a couple of permits for hot dog vendors and what not.
That's what some cities do here in the US for some football games, and there is great deal of cash that's generated from the towing alone. The city could also temporarily close some streets for non-residents, and direct the traffic to its nearest commercial district instead. Some businesses would probably love the extra traffic (assuming it knew about it ahead of time).
Spamgourmet allows you to do this on-the-fly, no personalized domain necessary.
Let's say your free email address at spamgourmet is joe@spamgourmet.com
Wen registering at Newegg, you'd just write newegg.joe@spamgourmet.com and spamgourmet would automatically forward your email to your real email address. The system even allows you to reply to the forwarded message from your real email address, and spamgourmet will act as the intermediary removing your original email address from the message. Spamgourmet even has more capabilities than that, for instance you could just write newegg.12.joe@spamgourmet.com instead that would mean you're only expecting 12 emails from Newegg, not a single more and spamgourmet would just keep a reverse counter (and of course, the system allows you to change your mind, for instance you could just decide to whitelist any of the emails coming from Newegg even if you had it set to only receive 12 emails from them).
And of course, some web sites have been banning spamgourmet email address from their registration form, but that doesn't really matter, spamgourmet has many alternative domains you can use, and you can even donate your own domain to the cause if you wanted.
And by the way, the system is free and open source, so you could even set this system up on your own servers if you wanted (not that you'd really need to).
I recommend Linux Mint, it's based on Ubuntu and Wubi, and it will always track Ubuntu (and Ubuntu will always track Debian), but it doesn't try to remain ideologically pure -- so it will have many of the most common drivers/codecs (even proprietary drivers/codecs) already preloaded onto it.
Here she can download it from this link. It comes with an installer and an uninstaller. It can run from a DVD/CD, but there is actually no need to even run it from there. I recommend you just use the installer and the uninstaller, it will run much smoother that way, it won't make any permanent partition (unless you want it to), and once uninstalled, it won't leave any traces of itself behind.
After all, we all know that reducing the cost of making telemarketing (or fundraising, or political) phone calls has no possible downside. After all, where would the internet be today if we didn't have pharmacological products advertised in our email and long distance gold-digging girlfriends impersonated by sophisticated spam-bots?
Credit card payment processing is the ideal complicity/trace/choke point for much of the world of spam and crimeware.
It's also a choke point for Wikileaks (despite the real first amendment implications). And it just goes to show you what's the biggest priority for our government right now, preventing fraud or preventing leaks.
How much does Microsoft want to license Windows Phone OS? My understanding is...around $15.
Yes, but Microsoft wants to keep the revenue of the app store to itself.
In the case of android, the 30% cut goes to the carrier or the manufacturer, not Google, so even if you take that $15 starting offer at face value (which personally I don't), the Android OS would still end up being much cheaper to the carrier (even including the cost of Google Maps and everything else).
This Linux statement doesn't make any sense. MS is keeping the patents in question secret, so for all we know, they may just have patented the color of the screen, or some other such nonsense.
There are three more reasons that there are so few apps for Honeycomb:
1. Super slow (practically unusable) Honeycomb emulator (that Google is working on, and even demoed a pre-alpha version at google io, so hopefully this will come soon).
2. Honeycomb tablet users are not allowed to leave ratings on the Market directly from their Honeycomb tablet (otherwise, the most incompatible and the most popular apps would have been flooded with negative ratings, and I'm sure that the developers of popular apps would have done something to maintain their good ratings).
3. Most android developers have been flooded with information on how they can optimize their existing Android application, all good information of course, but I don't think all of them realize yet that changing just one line of xml (namely the android:targetSdkVersion attribute to 11 in their manifest file and leaving the minSdkVersion number to the same as before) may just be all they need to do -- to keep the new Honeycomb users happy (and sure, this tiny change will not give them the nice Honeycomb menu/the action bar, nor will it reorganize the layout into fragments for them, correct any accelerometer game defaults, or even turn their assets into super-high resolution tablet graphics), but at least that should help make their app use the entire real estate of the screen, instead of a tiny little part of it -- which is my biggest gripe right now with some of the Android apps that I still use everyday).
PS: Technically, it's more than one line if you count the fact that you have to increment your android:versionCode counter as well (which is something you have to do anyway anytime you change something in your code, that's why I'm already assuming an android developer already knows about that part).
This reminds me of the Mark Foley incident where he was repeatedly labeled as a Democrat during a show, and that show was re-run three times at least before the text was edited out (without explanation). Just like with Twitter content, Fox News probably didn't know that it could edit video content either.
Because many hackers do like to brag to like-minded individuals even if they don't need to, that's one of the main reasons they hack in the first place, and yet can't stand to remain completely anonymous at the same time.
And also, the CIA hasn't broken Julian Assange yet. Until they can compromise Julian Assange, they'll need another hacker to pose as an alternative distribution channel (for instance, like the guy who gave up Bradley Manning, or some other hacker they've just arrested, but not prosecuted yet and have current serious leverage against).
Once a seemingly-legitimate competing channel (or even multiple competing channels) are established, then the CIA and the other CIAs of the World, whatever they've called, will re-double their efforts to discredit Julian Assange and perhaps even make him and some of his most troublesome cohorts completely disappear. Repeat this selection process often enough, and the majority of WikiLeaks "leaders" and other leaking sites owners that will survive will be government sponsored double-agents and/or sheepish leaders that still leak *some* information but that don't dare crossing the line laid down by their own government (or the United States).
If some idiot wants to be the next Steven Spielberg, and is willing to work for free getting coffee and doing errands for a particular film Director he admires. What right do we have as a society to stop him from doing that? Do we really have to regulate every little thing?
Also you don't seem to know what indentured servitude really means. An indentured servant can't run away. On the other hand, an unpaid intern can walk away, that's assuming he's not getting enough value from his/her internship, and who's the best judge for making that decision, the intern himself of course (assuming he's of legal age), not you or some other government bureaucrat.
It could also be a way to make sure the candidates and parties or their supporters don't do any real-time independent reporting or double-checking. After all, it's far easier to mess with the results of an election through the television networks and the government infrastructure if you're part of the government, than to try control what people are going to say to their family or their friends on Twitter or Facebook.
No, not me, and not anyone around me (at least I don't think).
There must be a cluster of headache sufferers where you live. Either that, or there may be an abnormal number of red cars driving around your area. Personally, I find that seeing red cars gives me headaches, but thankfully I've been lucky, I haven't seen many red cars lately.
What about you? May be, you should keep a car color journal or something, and report back here in a couple of days.
Were your doctors idiots? A very superficial google search confirms that this kind of symptom does exist for this type of medication. If I were you, my next step would be to go to a Medical/Biology University library, and have the librarians help find you actual peer reviewed Medical Journals that talk about it. If the doctors are not going to look this up, and let's face it, they can't look up everything on every topic, there is just too much research to go through it all, you'll just have to do it yourself.
Some other devices that should be investigated are the huge powerful scanners that scan container trucks. My neighbor is a truck driver and he has to drive through that scanner every time he's picking up a load from the port of Oakland, which means he's being scanned almost every day.
And yes, before I forget, Android has had "hardware-based" encryption, even memory card based encryption available, since at least version 1.6. It wasn't officially in there, but since Android was open source, it didn't prevent researchers, defense contractors, and OEMs from baking hardware-encryption directly into their own versions (something that they were completely forbidden to do with iOS).
Android has encryption all the way through. It had it officially since Android 3.0 and it had it in custom ROMs for the enterprise since at least version 1.6 (long before the iPhone had anything remotely secure). Why else do you think some of our US Special Forces have chosen to standardize solely on it?
Another advantage of Android is that some of its models can been manufactured in the US, and the same can not be said of the iPhones/iPads. And that replacing the batteries, or using cheap larger extended batteries, with an Android phone, is not a problem. And don't get me started on the weird wording of the iPhone/iTunes terms of services that says "You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons." What the hell does that mean anyway?
Just search for iCal on the Android Market (it seems the app called "iCal Import/Export" should do the trick for you)
Now, you didn't say whether you wanted online sync or offline sync, so if that app doesn't do the trick for you, note that the calendar data on an Android phone can easily be gotten through its Content Provider or through its underlying SQLite database, so it should be easy enough for a budding programmer on Ubuntu to write a small utility for that.
Also the last I heard Ubuntu was centralizing contact data and calendar information on couchDB, and note that couchDB also works on Android (the only drawback seems to be that couchDB on Android takes quite a bit of space of internal memory right now, but hopefully that will improve).
Would you rather view ads or rent off some of your CPU / memory?
It depends. Personally, I'd prefer to rent off my CPU only when I'm not using my computer, not when I'm actively looking for something on Wikipedia and I have x number of tabs already opened. I guess the same could be said for ads too. Whenever I'm browsing the web, I opt for no ads if I can help it, or less computationally intensive ads (like Google ad-words) instead.
And the problem with Wikipedia doing that is that its users are already used loading a clean site without too many ads (except for various fundraising ads), that the foundation already has a pretty clear mission (and this idea would severely detract from it), and that since the overwhelming majority of wikipedia users are already using wikipedia for non-editing and/or non-altruistic reasons, I don't think they would be supportive of this idea either.
That was going to be my suggestion too, go outside of the US.
Not only he'll be able to focus on what he wants, but he may be able to get a BS in two to three years instead of four (to five) years.
And since American students rarely go abroad to study Computer Science, the likelihood that he'll be accepted into a top ranked University abroad is actually pretty good (since many University departments do try to maintain a little bit of international diversity). The only problem may be the higher out-of-country tuition he'll have to pay, but even that, that may be surprisingly cheap compared to an in-state tuition within the United States.
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'No! Social security will continue to operate as normal. If Congress does not authorize additional funding, you can expect to receive seventy cents on the dollar.'
So the post office and their printer didn't accept their 70% offer. They should just have mailed out 70% of the Statements (those are still good odds imo).
It's too bad they didn't seem to take into account operating expenses when they did this little back-of-the-enveloppe calculation. How can they pay out seventy cents on the dollars when the most visible part of their operation grinds to a halt at the first sign of lack of funds? Or is this a political tactic on their part, a way to rally the people to put pressure on politicians?
It's probably the latter I think.
You should have submitted the papers anyway. It doesn't matter if they're properly filled out, or not. It's not like they were going to reimburse you anyway. You fill out the papers, so that at least, your incident gets recorded in their statistics.
Often times, authorities try to dissuade you from filling out paperwork, bad statistics make their bosses look bad, but then again, if no incident is ever recorded or filed, it's as if your incident never even officially occurred.
I agree. They probably do. Any event that has a 10,000 people RSVP'ing to it, would probably require a permit or something, and the appropriate number of porta-potties. Worst case scenario, have the small hosting city ban public parking on the surrounding streets for that day, call in hundreds of private tow trucks, and sell a couple of permits for hot dog vendors and what not.
That's what some cities do here in the US for some football games, and there is great deal of cash that's generated from the towing alone. The city could also temporarily close some streets for non-residents, and direct the traffic to its nearest commercial district instead. Some businesses would probably love the extra traffic (assuming it knew about it ahead of time).
Spamgourmet allows you to do this on-the-fly, no personalized domain necessary.
Let's say your free email address at spamgourmet is joe@spamgourmet.com
Wen registering at Newegg, you'd just write newegg.joe@spamgourmet.com and spamgourmet would automatically forward your email to your real email address. The system even allows you to reply to the forwarded message from your real email address, and spamgourmet will act as the intermediary removing your original email address from the message. Spamgourmet even has more capabilities than that, for instance you could just write newegg.12.joe@spamgourmet.com instead that would mean you're only expecting 12 emails from Newegg, not a single more and spamgourmet would just keep a reverse counter (and of course, the system allows you to change your mind, for instance you could just decide to whitelist any of the emails coming from Newegg even if you had it set to only receive 12 emails from them).
And of course, some web sites have been banning spamgourmet email address from their registration form, but that doesn't really matter, spamgourmet has many alternative domains you can use, and you can even donate your own domain to the cause if you wanted.
And by the way, the system is free and open source, so you could even set this system up on your own servers if you wanted (not that you'd really need to).
I recommend Linux Mint, it's based on Ubuntu and Wubi, and it will always track Ubuntu (and Ubuntu will always track Debian), but it doesn't try to remain ideologically pure -- so it will have many of the most common drivers/codecs (even proprietary drivers/codecs) already preloaded onto it.
Here she can download it from this link. It comes with an installer and an uninstaller. It can run from a DVD/CD, but there is actually no need to even run it from there. I recommend you just use the installer and the uninstaller, it will run much smoother that way, it won't make any permanent partition (unless you want it to), and once uninstalled, it won't leave any traces of itself behind.
No, mark my words, this will improve the economy.
After all, we all know that reducing the cost of making telemarketing (or fundraising, or political) phone calls has no possible downside. After all, where would the internet be today if we didn't have pharmacological products advertised in our email and long distance gold-digging girlfriends impersonated by sophisticated spam-bots?
Credit card payment processing is the ideal complicity/trace/choke point for much of the world of spam and crimeware.
It's also a choke point for Wikileaks (despite the real first amendment implications). And it just goes to show you what's the biggest priority for our government right now, preventing fraud or preventing leaks.
How much does Microsoft want to license Windows Phone OS? My understanding is...around $15.
Yes, but Microsoft wants to keep the revenue of the app store to itself.
In the case of android, the 30% cut goes to the carrier or the manufacturer, not Google, so even if you take that $15 starting offer at face value (which personally I don't), the Android OS would still end up being much cheaper to the carrier (even including the cost of Google Maps and everything else).
This Linux statement doesn't make any sense. MS is keeping the patents in question secret, so for all we know, they may just have patented the color of the screen, or some other such nonsense.
There are three more reasons that there are so few apps for Honeycomb:
1. Super slow (practically unusable) Honeycomb emulator (that Google is working on, and even demoed a pre-alpha version at google io, so hopefully this will come soon).
2. Honeycomb tablet users are not allowed to leave ratings on the Market directly from their Honeycomb tablet (otherwise, the most incompatible and the most popular apps would have been flooded with negative ratings, and I'm sure that the developers of popular apps would have done something to maintain their good ratings).
3. Most android developers have been flooded with information on how they can optimize their existing Android application, all good information of course, but I don't think all of them realize yet that changing just one line of xml (namely the android:targetSdkVersion attribute to 11 in their manifest file and leaving the minSdkVersion number to the same as before) may just be all they need to do -- to keep the new Honeycomb users happy (and sure, this tiny change will not give them the nice Honeycomb menu/the action bar, nor will it reorganize the layout into fragments for them, correct any accelerometer game defaults, or even turn their assets into super-high resolution tablet graphics), but at least that should help make their app use the entire real estate of the screen, instead of a tiny little part of it -- which is my biggest gripe right now with some of the Android apps that I still use everyday).
PS: Technically, it's more than one line if you count the fact that you have to increment your android:versionCode counter as well (which is something you have to do anyway anytime you change something in your code, that's why I'm already assuming an android developer already knows about that part).
This reminds me of the Mark Foley incident where he was repeatedly labeled as a Democrat during a show, and that show was re-run three times at least before the text was edited out (without explanation). Just like with Twitter content, Fox News probably didn't know that it could edit video content either.
Because many hackers do like to brag to like-minded individuals even if they don't need to, that's one of the main reasons they hack in the first place, and yet can't stand to remain completely anonymous at the same time.
And also, the CIA hasn't broken Julian Assange yet. Until they can compromise Julian Assange, they'll need another hacker to pose as an alternative distribution channel (for instance, like the guy who gave up Bradley Manning, or some other hacker they've just arrested, but not prosecuted yet and have current serious leverage against).
Once a seemingly-legitimate competing channel (or even multiple competing channels) are established, then the CIA and the other CIAs of the World, whatever they've called, will re-double their efforts to discredit Julian Assange and perhaps even make him and some of his most troublesome cohorts completely disappear. Repeat this selection process often enough, and the majority of WikiLeaks "leaders" and other leaking sites owners that will survive will be government sponsored double-agents and/or sheepish leaders that still leak *some* information but that don't dare crossing the line laid down by their own government (or the United States).
If some idiot wants to be the next Steven Spielberg, and is willing to work for free getting coffee and doing errands for a particular film Director he admires. What right do we have as a society to stop him from doing that? Do we really have to regulate every little thing?
Also you don't seem to know what indentured servitude really means. An indentured servant can't run away. On the other hand, an unpaid intern can walk away, that's assuming he's not getting enough value from his/her internship, and who's the best judge for making that decision, the intern himself of course (assuming he's of legal age), not you or some other government bureaucrat.
It could also be a way to make sure the candidates and parties or their supporters don't do any real-time independent reporting or double-checking. After all, it's far easier to mess with the results of an election through the television networks and the government infrastructure if you're part of the government, than to try control what people are going to say to their family or their friends on Twitter or Facebook.
No, not me, and not anyone around me (at least I don't think).
There must be a cluster of headache sufferers where you live. Either that, or there may be an abnormal number of red cars driving around your area. Personally, I find that seeing red cars gives me headaches, but thankfully I've been lucky, I haven't seen many red cars lately.
What about you? May be, you should keep a car color journal or something, and report back here in a couple of days.
Were your doctors idiots? A very superficial google search confirms that this kind of symptom does exist for this type of medication. If I were you, my next step would be to go to a Medical/Biology University library, and have the librarians help find you actual peer reviewed Medical Journals that talk about it. If the doctors are not going to look this up, and let's face it, they can't look up everything on every topic, there is just too much research to go through it all, you'll just have to do it yourself.
Some other devices that should be investigated are the huge powerful scanners that scan container trucks. My neighbor is a truck driver and he has to drive through that scanner every time he's picking up a load from the port of Oakland, which means he's being scanned almost every day.
And yes, before I forget, Android has had "hardware-based" encryption, even memory card based encryption available, since at least version 1.6. It wasn't officially in there, but since Android was open source, it didn't prevent researchers, defense contractors, and OEMs from baking hardware-encryption directly into their own versions (something that they were completely forbidden to do with iOS).
Android has encryption all the way through. It had it officially since Android 3.0 and it had it in custom ROMs for the enterprise since at least version 1.6 (long before the iPhone had anything remotely secure). Why else do you think some of our US Special Forces have chosen to standardize solely on it?
Another advantage of Android is that some of its models can been manufactured in the US, and the same can not be said of the iPhones/iPads. And that replacing the batteries, or using cheap larger extended batteries, with an Android phone, is not a problem. And don't get me started on the weird wording of the iPhone/iTunes terms of services that says "You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons." What the hell does that mean anyway?
Just search for iCal on the Android Market (it seems the app called "iCal Import/Export" should do the trick for you)
Now, you didn't say whether you wanted online sync or offline sync, so if that app doesn't do the trick for you, note that the calendar data on an Android phone can easily be gotten through its Content Provider or through its underlying SQLite database, so it should be easy enough for a budding programmer on Ubuntu to write a small utility for that.
Also the last I heard Ubuntu was centralizing contact data and calendar information on couchDB, and note that couchDB also works on Android (the only drawback seems to be that couchDB on Android takes quite a bit of space of internal memory right now, but hopefully that will improve).
FYI. Here is a screenshot of Angry Birds on Blackberry.
Would you rather view ads or rent off some of your CPU / memory?
It depends. Personally, I'd prefer to rent off my CPU only when I'm not using my computer, not when I'm actively looking for something on Wikipedia and I have x number of tabs already opened. I guess the same could be said for ads too. Whenever I'm browsing the web, I opt for no ads if I can help it, or less computationally intensive ads (like Google ad-words) instead.
And the problem with Wikipedia doing that is that its users are already used loading a clean site without too many ads (except for various fundraising ads), that the foundation already has a pretty clear mission (and this idea would severely detract from it), and that since the overwhelming majority of wikipedia users are already using wikipedia for non-editing and/or non-altruistic reasons, I don't think they would be supportive of this idea either.
I want a BS in Computer Science with no general education requirements. Any suggestions?"
Don't date your classmates.
That was going to be my suggestion too, go outside of the US.
Not only he'll be able to focus on what he wants, but he may be able to get a BS in two to three years instead of four (to five) years.
And since American students rarely go abroad to study Computer Science, the likelihood that he'll be accepted into a top ranked University abroad is actually pretty good (since many University departments do try to maintain a little bit of international diversity). The only problem may be the higher out-of-country tuition he'll have to pay, but even that, that may be surprisingly cheap compared to an in-state tuition within the United States.
The "helpful" comment was from me. I thought he was just playing Mobsters, or something.