If you're using a DSL/Cable connection to view this website, chances are with certainty you are bound by a smart contract. That is to say, if you fail to make ISP payments three months in a row, you will get disconnected automatically from the remote server.
Yeah, and my electric company uses a smart contract - if I skip their bills long enough, they shut me off. You confuse a secured debt with an ongoing service.
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Not all, we know of one who got bailed out several times by his parents and their friends, but ended up president.
The longer this goes on, the more painful the lesson. According to 'the millionaire next door', it's the people who don't get aid from relatives that become the success stories and the ones that are bailed out that never learn how to live on their own.
Not bloody likely. this sort of thing is only for so-called high risk people. If you can get 5-6% on a car today, they won't be pushing this thing on you.
At work, I have a brand new Windows XP Pro machine. It had a built-in firewall which is designed to prevent internet access (in or out) without specific permission from me, the user and Administrator of that computer.
You don't have a firewall, you have a program that attempts to implement a network policy on your PC. As you found out, it can be compromised.
Your government takes 50% of your income, forcing most households to have no stay at home parent.
I pay about 35%, and I'm a highly paid software engineer on the left coast. What the hell are you doing?
You likely pay $thousands per year to educate kids you don't even know. Ridiculous.
Yeah, well it's cheaper than locking up the ones that'd otherwise burgle you, and benefits society to boot. It also keeps them off the street so their parents can work.
Uhh...so are airplanes. And so are cars. And both have gotten better much faster than trains.
How many people ride in 200mph cars? How many in 200mph trains? Regardless, trains are older, and they have matured - don't expect massive changes, save for the new bullet train initiatives.
The cash injections are because Congress loves to give out other people's money.
The cash injections are there to keep airlines out of bankruptcy court.
It's also making the airlines fat & lazy, more like a government entity.
You've reversed cause and effect.
It would be better to let them go out of business and the efficient airlines (like Southwest) would dominate.
Southwest and jetblue dominate, in part, because they fly limited routes and have (for southwest) only one type of plane. The older airlines have more varied inventory and more routes with more competition. This doesn't scale to a whole market solution.
Because the groups buying the slot machines (casinos) have a vested interest in having quality products so they can make money. Therefore, they won't risk anything but the best.
They're also held to a higher standard because it's so easy to cheat with a rigged slot machine.
They've blown it in such amazing, over-the-top ways, you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
So tell us - you can't just throw out a tease like that and walk away. I hope it's better than switching the $10 and $20 bin or allowing someone to withdraw the same $100 twice.
I think you're wrong. Dismissing a study based solely on who commissioned it (which is different from just funding it) is not fallacious, it's common sense. Think about it for a moment.
We haven't done that. Instead, we are examining it closely because of the funder's past record of biased studies, then rejecting it on the basis of its flawed premises.
This study covers an area where Microsoft has invested substantial effort in making a specific set of migration pathways. Microsoft's design method has always been to streamline certain task pathways, and (by design and/or side effect) make work outside those pathways much more difficult.
It's odd that you'd mention this (and it may even be accurate) because, apparently nobody upgrades MS OSes
Chrysler supposedly learned this lesson the hard way in the 70's & 80's, when bean counters were allowed to decide which models cars and trucks would go to market. The company paid dearly for that mistake, and is only now comng off the ugly results.
What are you talking about? They got bought by Daimler.
Despite all the sound and the fury, I don't see GM going anywhere any time soon
GM the car company is going bankrrupt, they just haven't bothered to file. They are bankrupt, or going there, in so many ways - nobody wants to buy their cars without the employee discount, they aren't doing anything significant to either improve quality or reduce cost, they have no fresh ideas (the suv on their front page at gm.com looks to be a rebadged subaru), and they just closed some factories. Maybe, instead of partnering with subaru to get some cars, they should've gotten some manufacturing processes or design consultation.
GM the credit company, otoh, is firmly in the black. I assume that if things get too too bad, they'll spin off as a wholly separate corporation.
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If you're using a DSL/Cable connection to view this website, chances are with certainty you are bound by a smart contract. That is to say, if you fail to make ISP payments three months in a row, you will get disconnected automatically from the remote server.
Yeah, and my electric company uses a smart contract - if I skip their bills long enough, they shut me off. You confuse a secured debt with an ongoing service.
Not all, we know of one who got bailed out several times by his parents and their friends, but ended up president.
The longer this goes on, the more painful the lesson. According to 'the millionaire next door', it's the people who don't get aid from relatives that become the success stories and the ones that are bailed out that never learn how to live on their own.
Not bloody likely. this sort of thing is only for so-called high risk people. If you can get 5-6% on a car today, they won't be pushing this thing on you.
The new parental controls are an excellent CYA tool. Soon a parent will be able to control the times an account is allowed to be used.
Can you use the tool to kick a player? That'd be cool, if really really rude
At work, I have a brand new Windows XP Pro machine. It had a built-in firewall which is designed to prevent internet access (in or out) without specific permission from me, the user and Administrator of that computer.
You don't have a firewall, you have a program that attempts to implement a network policy on your PC. As you found out, it can be compromised.
i know of an online store that will still let you edit the URL to change the final billing amount
I know of a certain online bookstore that would let you do hand edit the rating you gave book reviews (since fixed) without doing any validation.
I can only imagine that he gets a rise or something out of people yelling at him that his sig is wrong.
Nah, most people just don't get the joke. Here's the sig again for those who don't want to run up the parent chain:
Grammer tip: 'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
Your government takes 50% of your income, forcing most households to have no stay at home parent.
I pay about 35%, and I'm a highly paid software engineer on the left coast. What the hell are you doing?
You likely pay $thousands per year to educate kids you don't even know. Ridiculous.
Yeah, well it's cheaper than locking up the ones that'd otherwise burgle you, and benefits society to boot. It also keeps them off the street so their parents can work.
We also don't make it onto "Trading Spouses" like that insane "Christian" lady.
Of course, she didn't make such a big impression for being a Christian so much as a crazy person.
"Bleargh! I am a God Warrior!"
Feh, everybody knows that god warriors are giants (bottom of the page).
What happens if somebody uses a 10 time more powerful device at a teen concert.
So that's 85 dN - who'd even hear it?
Uhh...so are airplanes. And so are cars. And both have gotten better much faster than trains.
How many people ride in 200mph cars? How many in 200mph trains? Regardless, trains are older, and they have matured - don't expect massive changes, save for the new bullet train initiatives.
The cash injections are because Congress loves to give out other people's money.
The cash injections are there to keep airlines out of bankruptcy court.
It's also making the airlines fat & lazy, more like a government entity.
You've reversed cause and effect.
It would be better to let them go out of business and the efficient airlines (like Southwest) would dominate.
Southwest and jetblue dominate, in part, because they fly limited routes and have (for southwest) only one type of plane. The older airlines have more varied inventory and more routes with more competition. This doesn't scale to a whole market solution.
it's idiotic to think they wouldn't ask for security measures without a regulation requiring it.
My entire point is that regulations do require it.
You might as well suggest that all the world's people would immediately kill themselves, if the laws against suicide were overturned.
some people will, some won't, and some do so anyway. Whaddya gonna do, arrest them?
Again, the buyer (the casino) wants the best product. A dollar lost is a dollar lost. And private companies don't want to lose money.
No, the buyer gets what they are required to get, based on the gambling industry regulations.
Because the groups buying the slot machines (casinos) have a vested interest in having quality products so they can make money. Therefore, they won't risk anything but the best.
They're also held to a higher standard because it's so easy to cheat with a rigged slot machine.
How much have trains changed since amtrak (part of the government) started running them in 1971?
How about before? Trains are 100+ years old, and the primary improvements have been efficency related in the last little bit.
Air travel is far better than in 1971, because the competing air carriers work to provide a better service at a better price
Is that why the accident rate has gone up and we're regularly giving them $20B cash injections because they're barely solvent?
I'm not touching the medical insurance thing. That industry is so broken in so many ways that I don't even know where to start.
They've blown it in such amazing, over-the-top ways, you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
So tell us - you can't just throw out a tease like that and walk away. I hope it's better than switching the $10 and $20 bin or allowing someone to withdraw the same $100 twice.
War of 1812. We invaded them first, though
See, that doesn't count - they were acting in self defense, and it was british troops that did the actual invasion.
making sure Canada doesn't invade the US.
Serious question: when has Canada ever invaded us?
Answer: They did know that GLIBC could break things and tries to minimize the breakages (see study)
By installing the patched version of glibc from an rpm alongside the existing library? Well no, they didn't.
I think you're wrong. Dismissing a study based solely on who commissioned it (which is different from just funding it) is not fallacious, it's common sense. Think about it for a moment.
We haven't done that. Instead, we are examining it closely because of the funder's past record of biased studies, then rejecting it on the basis of its flawed premises.
This study covers an area where Microsoft has invested substantial effort in making a specific set of migration pathways. Microsoft's design method has always been to streamline certain task pathways, and (by design and/or side effect) make work outside those pathways much more difficult.
It's odd that you'd mention this (and it may even be accurate) because, apparently nobody upgrades MS OSes
If you're ever in seattle, try out the pyramid brewery - they have a range of beers, and my current favorite is the hefeweizen.
Yes, PARC was a great success in every way, and made fortunes for everybody but Xerox.
So Xerox didn't know how to capitalize on what PARC made - how is that PARC's fault?
Chrysler supposedly learned this lesson the hard way in the 70's & 80's, when bean counters were allowed to decide which models cars and trucks would go to market. The company paid dearly for that mistake, and is only now comng off the ugly results.
What are you talking about? They got bought by Daimler.
Despite all the sound and the fury, I don't see GM going anywhere any time soon
GM the car company is going bankrrupt, they just haven't bothered to file. They are bankrupt, or going there, in so many ways - nobody wants to buy their cars without the employee discount, they aren't doing anything significant to either improve quality or reduce cost, they have no fresh ideas (the suv on their front page at gm.com looks to be a rebadged subaru), and they just closed some factories. Maybe, instead of partnering with subaru to get some cars, they should've gotten some manufacturing processes or design consultation.
GM the credit company, otoh, is firmly in the black. I assume that if things get too too bad, they'll spin off as a wholly separate corporation.