This may be one of the few times when the number makes sense. The $6 billion isn't necessarily the money they lose from the customers, but if they could, for example, promise 11 million more customers for say, the Superbowl, how much would Pepsi pay then?
This is an example of the customers screwing the companies that only need the customers to screw the other companies.
Either you read the articles attached and didn't believe them, or you didn't read. I guess this is why people post "in case the server goes down".
From:The PATRIOT Act link above.
Expanded Surveillance With Reduced Checks and Balances. USAPA expands all four traditional tools of surveillance -- wiretaps, search warrants, pen/trap orders and subpoenas. Their counterparts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that allow spying in the U.S. by foreign intelligence agencies have similarly been expanded. This means:
Be careful what you put in that Google search. The government may now spy on web surfing of innocent Americans, including terms entered into search engines, by merely telling a judge anywhere in the U.S. that the spying could lead to information that is "relevant" to an ongoing criminal investigation. The person spied on does not have to be the target of the investigation. This application must be granted and the government is not obligated to report to the court or tell the person spied up what it has done.
Nationwide roving wiretaps. FBI and CIA can now go from phone to phone, computer to computer without demonstrating that each is even being used by a suspect or target of an order. The government may now serve a single wiretap, FISA wiretap or pen/trap order on any person or entity nationwide, regardless of whether that person or entity is named in the order. The government need not make any showing to a court that the particular information or communication to be acquired is relevant to a criminal investigation. In the pen/trap or FISA situations, they do not even have to report where they served the order or what information they received. The EFF believes that the opportunities for abuse of these broad new powers are immense. For pen/trap orders, ISPs or others who are not named in the do have authority under the law to request certification from the Attorney General's office that the order applies to them, but they do not have the authority to request such confirmation from a court.
ISPs hand over more user information. The law makes two changes to increase how much information the government may obtain about users from their ISPs or others who handle or store their online communications. First it allows ISPs to voluntarily hand over all "non-content" information to law enforcement with no need for any court order or subpoena. sec. 212. Second, it expands the records that the government may seek with a simple subpoena (no court review required) to include records of session times and durations, temporarily assigned network (I.P.) addresses; means and source of payments, including credit card or bank account numbers. secs. 210, 211.
New definitions of terrorism expand scope of surveillance. One new definition of terrorism and three expansions of previous terms also expand the scope of surveillance. They are 1) 802 definition of "domestic terrorism" (amending 18 USC 2331), which raises concerns about legitimate protest activity resulting in conviction on terrorism charges, especially if violence erupts; adds to 3 existing definition of terrorism (int'l terrorism per 18 USC 2331, terrorism transcending national borders per 18 USC 2332b, and federal terrorism per amended 18 USC 2332b(g)(5)(B)). These new definitions also expose more people to surveillance (and potential "harboring" and "material support" liability, 803, 805).
The network, which became available for public use on Monday, is free to use for now. Organizers envision charging $20 a month for access once the network, covering a 4-square-mile area of downtown Pittsburgh, is built, according to Executive Director Ron Gdovic.
Well, since the click through didn't work, I guess we can only hit you a little bit for not reading the article first.
Junkyard Wars, Iron Chef, and Enterprise, why they could... er, they could, um
Guess that you read slashdot?
Doesn't look user friendly from their demo...
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I wonder what the Interface Hall of Shame would make of this one. It's a real world model designed to function as a poorly designed virtual model, or so it seems. There doesn't seem to be any real advantage to hitting three or four buttons to do something when I can just hit {VCR}{1}{2}{ENTER} to do the same thing on any other universal. If you REALLY want this functionality, perhap you should use your Palm Pilot instead?
I went into a different career because of this. In high school there were two things I loved more than anything, GOOD advertising and computers. I realized then that if I really wanted to make good advertising that would make people really interested, I'd have to to work for a beer company. Since I was willing to sell products that eventually kill people if used improperly, I ended up a programmer.
I work as a subcontractor for the DoD. Now I make products that only kill people if used correctly.
Don't ISP's always retain the right to copy and comply with law enforcement with or without the court order? The court order is merely ask the ISP to comply, but the ISP is not REQUIRED to ask for one. Used to be every time you signed up even with a BBS they'd flash that fact in your face, that the sysop CAN read your mail.
The fourth amendment does not protect against companies looking at information they already have a contract with you, personally, to look at.
Definitely not just you. I KNEW it was coming out last year. I was EAGER to see it. I couldn't figure out WHEN it was coming out for the life of me. I had to put real effort into figure out when it was coming out. The website didn't have a date (I HATE movie websites that don't have a promminent date). The few trailors I did see were all the "Coming Soon" variety. It was driving me crazy.
I finally figured it out from a Discovery Channel Spidersaresocool promo tie in.
Bookmarking will no longer be allowed, as this constitutes "deep linking", and may allow you to by pass certain material. Also, Mozilla, in a proactive response will no longer allow "cut-n-paste" features for URL.
Japanese lass' sexy pictures
That should have been their FIRST tip off the emails were frauds. If they were really from preists they'd be Japanese virgin sexy pictures.
Admittedly, this comes from someone who has never worked in a grocery store, but don't most stores keep a pretty close eye on cash register draw balances? Seems to me it would be much easier to make off with store merchandise than cash out of your drawer. Which, if true, means this won't have a major impact on employee theft.
No, store, even the ones that are trying, have an incredibly difficult time keeping an eye on their own employees. Employees have far too much time to sit and think about the system for the system to work to catch them. From 'boop' scanning items (putting your finger over the barcode so the reader doesn't see it) to simply slipping friends extra change (Oops, I gave him a fifty instead of a twenty), employees get away with tons of cash almost unprovably. You can fire them for making the mistake, but not prosecute unless they are VERY sloppy.
The problem, by extension, is that if the biometric scanners are not significant enough to catch falsified prints, (flashlights and pasties, fingerprints on latex gloves) the employees will not either; the employees will be in on it.
Not at Georgia Tech though. I love how many people here pretend their school didn't have the almost exact same rule. I transferred colleges and BOTH had this rule. All my friends at other schools has the same rule. EVERYONE HAS THIS RULE! Why? Because it works. As someone who has graded thousands of lines of code in a single night, it you know the language and the material, and you known the students, it is obvious who copied from who. Despite the example someone game, it is rare to have a 30 line block almost identical, even in a 600 line program. I know, because I had to look at those programs for three years.
The real moral of the story is that if the students don't understand and don't ask the TA then most of the time, not always, but most of the time, you need friendlier or better TAs
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Makes you wonder what they are really trying to teach their kids.
This may be one of the few times when the number makes sense. The $6 billion isn't necessarily the money they lose from the customers, but if they could, for example, promise 11 million more customers for say, the Superbowl, how much would Pepsi pay then?
This is an example of the customers screwing the companies that only need the customers to screw the other companies.
From The CNET article Even stranger, both Mozilla and Netscape outran IE 6 in three of four tests.
From now on, "strange" will be defined as "something you would predict off the top of your head"
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Hmm, I think I can explain that for you...
Expanded Surveillance With Reduced Checks and Balances. USAPA expands all four traditional tools of surveillance -- wiretaps, search warrants, pen/trap orders and subpoenas. Their counterparts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that allow spying in the U.S. by foreign intelligence agencies have similarly been expanded. This means:
Be careful what you put in that Google search. The government may now spy on web surfing of innocent Americans, including terms entered into search engines, by merely telling a judge anywhere in the U.S. that the spying could lead to information that is "relevant" to an ongoing criminal investigation. The person spied on does not have to be the target of the investigation. This application must be granted and the government is not obligated to report to the court or tell the person spied up what it has done.
Nationwide roving wiretaps. FBI and CIA can now go from phone to phone, computer to computer without demonstrating that each is even being used by a suspect or target of an order. The government may now serve a single wiretap, FISA wiretap or pen/trap order on any person or entity nationwide, regardless of whether that person or entity is named in the order. The government need not make any showing to a court that the particular information or communication to be acquired is relevant to a criminal investigation. In the pen/trap or FISA situations, they do not even have to report where they served the order or what information they received. The EFF believes that the opportunities for abuse of these broad new powers are immense. For pen/trap orders, ISPs or others who are not named in the do have authority under the law to request certification from the Attorney General's office that the order applies to them, but they do not have the authority to request such confirmation from a court.
ISPs hand over more user information. The law makes two changes to increase how much information the government may obtain about users from their ISPs or others who handle or store their online communications. First it allows ISPs to voluntarily hand over all "non-content" information to law enforcement with no need for any court order or subpoena. sec. 212. Second, it expands the records that the government may seek with a simple subpoena (no court review required) to include records of session times and durations, temporarily assigned network (I.P.) addresses; means and source of payments, including credit card or bank account numbers. secs. 210, 211.
New definitions of terrorism expand scope of surveillance. One new definition of terrorism and three expansions of previous terms also expand the scope of surveillance. They are 1) 802 definition of "domestic terrorism" (amending 18 USC 2331), which raises concerns about legitimate protest activity resulting in conviction on terrorism charges, especially if violence erupts; adds to 3 existing definition of terrorism (int'l terrorism per 18 USC 2331, terrorism transcending national borders per 18 USC 2332b, and federal terrorism per amended 18 USC 2332b(g)(5)(B)). These new definitions also expose more people to surveillance (and potential "harboring" and "material support" liability, 803, 805).
http://slashdot.org/Pittsburgh,whereanoutdoorpubli cWi-FinetworkwaslaunchedMonday
Maybe you meant: http://news.com.com/2100-1033-918439.html
This is starting to get annoying.
Fact: Spider-Man 3,615 screens
Fact: Star Wars ATOC 3,161 screens
Taken from http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/
The Math
Spider-Man opened with $31,769 per screen.
Star Wars opened with $27,254 per screen.
Spider-Man wins.
I wonder what the Interface Hall of Shame would make of this one.
It's a real world model designed to function as a poorly designed virtual model, or so it seems. There doesn't seem to be any real advantage to hitting three or four buttons to do something when I can just hit {VCR}{1}{2}{ENTER} to do the same thing on any other universal. If you REALLY want this functionality, perhap you should use your Palm Pilot instead?
I went into a different career because of this. In high school there were two things I loved more than anything, GOOD advertising and computers. I realized then that if I really wanted to make good advertising that would make people really interested, I'd have to to work for a beer company. Since I was willing to sell products that eventually kill people if used improperly, I ended up a programmer.
I work as a subcontractor for the DoD. Now I make products that only kill people if used correctly.
Oh well...
I concur, this is one of the few times I've ever laughed hard enough for people to start gophering in the office.
Don't ISP's always retain the right to copy and comply with law enforcement with or without the court order? The court order is merely ask the ISP to comply, but the ISP is not REQUIRED to ask for one. Used to be every time you signed up even with a BBS they'd flash that fact in your face, that the sysop CAN read your mail.
The fourth amendment does not protect against companies looking at information they already have a contract with you, personally, to look at.
Definitely not just you. I KNEW it was coming out last year. I was EAGER to see it. I couldn't figure out WHEN it was coming out for the life of me. I had to put real effort into figure out when it was coming out. The website didn't have a date (I HATE movie websites that don't have a promminent date). The few trailors I did see were all the "Coming Soon" variety. It was driving me crazy.
I finally figured it out from a Discovery Channel Spidersaresocool promo tie in.
I love responses like this. Because they are closer to Hollywood their oppinion is more valid?
In that case, my sister works for the guy who produced and wrote Pleasantville, Big, and other movies and SHE said it was good.
Exactly, who the hell cares what she thinks.
Thats actually only one theory. Another is that it is a kickback to COBOLD printing and typewriter days.
No, because going to the bathroom is theft
... try some intentional stupidity. The Interface Hall of Shame
Huh?
It's their copyright.
It is their copyright.
How many guesses did you take?
I would say, "Correct me if I'm wrong," but that goes without saying around here.
Bookmarking will no longer be allowed, as this constitutes "deep linking", and may allow you to by pass certain material. Also, Mozilla, in a proactive response will no longer allow "cut-n-paste" features for URL.
Details.
Japanese lass' sexy pictures
That should have been their FIRST tip off the emails were frauds. If they were really from preists they'd be Japanese virgin sexy pictures.
No, store, even the ones that are trying, have an incredibly difficult time keeping an eye on their own employees. Employees have far too much time to sit and think about the system for the system to work to catch them. From 'boop' scanning items (putting your finger over the barcode so the reader doesn't see it) to simply slipping friends extra change (Oops, I gave him a fifty instead of a twenty), employees get away with tons of cash almost unprovably. You can fire them for making the mistake, but not prosecute unless they are VERY sloppy.
The problem, by extension, is that if the biometric scanners are not significant enough to catch falsified prints, (flashlights and pasties, fingerprints on latex gloves) the employees will not either; the employees will be in on it.
Not at Georgia Tech though. I love how many people here pretend their school didn't have the almost exact same rule. I transferred colleges and BOTH had this rule. All my friends at other schools has the same rule. EVERYONE HAS THIS RULE!
Why? Because it works. As someone who has graded thousands of lines of code in a single night, it you know the language and the material, and you known the students, it is obvious who copied from who. Despite the example someone game, it is rare to have a 30 line block almost identical, even in a 600 line program. I know, because I had to look at those programs for three years.
The real moral of the story is that if the students don't understand and don't ask the TA then most of the time, not always, but most of the time, you need friendlier or better TAs