At corporations, ALL non-spam email must be kept for every employee... even the delete stuff for a certain period of time BY LAW. Spam is usually an exception because it's deleted by an automated process BEFORE the end user sees it... hence no action was ever taking on it. Everything else must be retained for 2,7,10, or more years.
because the 30 pin iPod connector has extra pins for all sorts of things... USB in, power in, power out, audio-in, audio-out, video-out, and some spares for when Apple feels like new features. Yes, they could have 3 standard plugs across the bottom but the dock has been a pretty good socket the last 5 years or so... it's not going anywhere. The adapter lets them make all the iPods the same and pickup whatever standard connectors they feel like blessing the masses with in the adapter, making things cheaper for the majority of users that will never bother with anything but the standard cable.
I'll be blunt, I bought all the cables for my last iPod and never actually USED them for more than a curiosity (ok, I have an Apple TV for connecting to my TV and it has HDMI out and Component) I would like to see a dual alarm bedside clock that also pulls out the video to something 6-8" or so.
most of the time it would be that they don't have time to look up your info when they do find stolen stuff... They'd read off 2-3 numbers that hit the list then stock the rest and probably never even enter the stuff as "recovered". It's just "stuff" after all.
Because a Kindle or Cell phone is tied to it's network 24x7 and THEY retain complete rights to modify the devices content under the software EULA and network TOS. If they can remotely deactivate it or modify it's content, why can't they mark the device "lost or stolen" at the owner/contract holder's request? A big part of criminal enterprise and drug trading is stealing phones to use with "throw away" SIM cards they get away with it for a few days then move on. Returning a lost phone for a regular person is pretty much dumb luck. Nobody really wants to take the devices back, let alone look them up to reconnect with their owners...it's damn sloppy and they benefit from continually tying you to extra contract extensions rather than trying to lock the merchandise you already purchased from them.
Exactly, they could put a "ready for resale" screen on the device when you remove the account properly, something different than when it's new from the box.
The whole deal is that Amazon reserves the right and has demonstrated they will take THEIR property back from the device... if the IP owner demands, but they won't use similar technology to secure the device for it's OWNER. They HAVE ALREADY done this for themselves, they just won't do it for YOU... that's why people are questioning it.
usually what happens is that they do find somebody with a horde of stolen stuff.. and they prosecute for X number of stolen items from X places. They just never bother to tell YOU where they put the evidence and it goes out the back door of the police station. The reports help find a pattern of habitual offenders in the area and that is useful to them... but YOU will never here about that... after all, EVERYBODY is a suspect.
most people on the board don't want the device tracked down, just disabled. That would discourage petty theft of things like Kindles and Cell phones and is trivially easy to do considering ownership of the network and the CONTENTS OF THE DEVICE are claimed by Amazon/Telcos under TOS. Considering Amazon can remotely take back a book and there's nothing the OWNER of the device can do it's entirely hypocritical not to at least disable a device reported lost or stolen...
They could at least take a registration number and make the person in possession of the device phone in to reactivate it.
The Kindle is a resource for Amazon's marketing whether YOU own it or not. If it's lost they can easily take away THEIR books and THEIR liability to the credit card company. What's left is an empty device waiting for a new credit card to start buying stuff.... Amazon's knows YOU will pay another $300 to read the books you've bought so a "free" Kindle in the wild is easy money for them.
but you can't USE the device unless you transfer the account to a new credit card. As the device is completely locked to Amazon it could be treated much like a WoW account sale where you have to sell your serial number through Amazon's service or it's not legit. Just handing the device off wouldn't be official and you'd have to prove you bought the device somehow.
The whole thing is egg squarely on amazon's face for one simple reason... remember the books they DELETED REMOTELY a few weeks ago. They DO have the power to find wayward accounts, and they DO have the ability to edit materials on the Kindle against user wishes.. more importantly, they have demonstrated they CAN and WILL use this ability.
Now that they've demonstrated this ability to cover THEIR ASSES... why can't they issue a "locking" order to YOUR device? Something like pay $25 and issue a locking code to your lost device and you'd get a password via email. Then the device would display that it was locked and that that you needed to call Kindle and give them the device code...
The key to why they won't do this is simple. They can take care of THEIR liability remotely but not yours. They can cancel your account so that you don't make THEM liable for reversed CC charges. It's not AMAZON'S $300 that's lost... in fact your lost Kindle is now a potential new account that somebody might buy books for... that's marketing bucks!!
Server grade equipment shouldn't be having hardware issues anymore not detected by the management module. In something like a POWER BladeCenter if you have power to the chassis at all, you can do nearly everything remotely you can do standing in the room. Unless it has a physical problem it'll run forever like that.
more importantly WHO your telling. The emergency operator don't know you from a ghost. On the other hand if you tell a buddy or neighbor you took a "shortcut" between A & B they're going to be within a few feet in minutes.. and often all you need is a helping hand... not the fire brigade and 6pm news.
cad software used to do this. You had to use a special encryption program to move the key file from one machine to a floppy and re-encrypt it on the new machine. In the internet age they tie these to an account, so it's uniquely written to (cpu serial number/os/ram/etc) every time it's moved. iTunes does something like this already when it ties the protected media files to your iTunes account and then retrieves the master key for your system/account when you sign in online. It's possible, the trouble is the liability for "lost" keys makes it troublesome.. but it might work in an "always on" internet world.
Please provide an example of ANY use in history of this UUID that I created.
If not, STFU, I can get a valid patent on it.
Because after all, if it's never been done, it must be patentable.
As far as the PTO is concerned after Regan came to office that was the official policy... the PTO is a "profit center" and the Republicans felt they should be giving out as many patents as they could to increase revenue. If an inventor didn't file, it's not the government's fault... "anybody" can file a patent (for significantly rich values of anybody... but we're republicans after all) It's not the PTOs job to know about ALL invention, only the patents they have granted and widely published/produced items. The idea was to take the money, award the patent if there is nobody else complaining about it.
Patents and Copyright grants are the New Nobility of the 21st century much like grants to castles were the right to power of the previous centuries.
While not admissible, it's certainly worth his lawyer getting their names to check them out. Even if its hearsay, they heard it from SOMEBODY, and maybe that person didn't tell the cops everything, or the witness is telling things to other people.
Guy is accused of heinous murder... anybody talking to their buddies, and the rest of the internet, and not to the police is not doing their civic duty to get this guy a fair trial. If somebody told different information in an internet post than they told the investigators, that's definitely worth knowing.
for instance a company might host their outside sales contacts, meetings, and such at salespeople.com that lets them have offices all over the world and the COMPANY doesn't have to pay to manage all the VPN connections.. if your sales staff can get to a web page, they're in... all the security, networking, bandwidth is managed by the cloud. For small businesses it will open up new ways of doing business and lower costs of IT from paying for rooms of servers and admins to "plug it in" simplicity of a utility.
Except... for those same small businesses, the "cheap" plans are going to use YOUR sales force to market THEIR products too. What's to stop them from pulling a mailing list from YOUR companies customer info stored on THEIR hardware (which they claim total ownership of and disclaim all warranty for). What's to stop that data from being sold off and ending up in your competitor's hands as part of "routine sales operations" for the Cloud host? Dealing with the big guys they have the horsepower to easily correlate your data with 10 other customers and sell it to the highest bidder. Of course they'll "guarantee" your data won't be shared.. if you update from the "starter" account to the enterprise account... but they can't make any promises....
It's like how the US goes after Korean (and Japanese/Taiwan) semi-conductor makers like Samsung and Hynix on a regular basis because the "industry" is "so" corrupt... but Micron (the only US maker left) is always absent from the trials... they did everything the other guys did but get a slap on the wrist, usually out of court, and turn "witness" on the other semiconductor makers.
There's plenty of carbon already stored below earth... we keep digging it up!!!
Plants are pretty good at storing carbon.. we keep cutting them down....
There is a cycle to warm and cold spells in the earth. Right now recorded history only tracks about 4,000 years in the East. Even 1500 years ago Europe was several degrees warmer allowing agrarian societies to flourish in middle Norway and Sweden and Russia, more north than would be habitable by "bronze age" peoples today. That was when Romans were building cities all the way to Britain and Vikings were traveling the North Atlantic in open air boats. Then it got colder and drove everybody south to Britian and France... (and pushed them to sac Rome)
The history of the early middle ages is one of drastic environmental change crushing civilization in on itself for a thousand years, they didn't write about it, they just moved on when they couldn't grow food to live on..until the plague wiped enough people out (living on top of each other in crowded cities, with cyclical famine cycles) to balance what the environment could provide. Africa is in the middle of something similar right now and the humans are in chaos.
The whole problem is that the earth already had a pretty good carbon encapsulation program... stored in millions of square miles of buried plants and animals!!! If we'd stop digging them up and releasing the carbon into the air we'd be just fine.
Plants are the most efficient carbon encapsulation mechanism... We just need fast growing plants to pull down the CO2, generate Oxygen, and then bury them somehow underground. If only there were somewhere with big deep holes?
the first round of astronauts would probably be "fixed" for health reasons to reduce complications and so they're not dealing with unprepared babies... that would wreck the mission if they showed up after a two year trip with toddlers!
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must be nice to live in a world without SOX!!
At corporations, ALL non-spam email must be kept for every employee... even the delete stuff for a certain period of time BY LAW. Spam is usually an exception because it's deleted by an automated process BEFORE the end user sees it... hence no action was ever taking on it. Everything else must be retained for 2,7,10, or more years.
because the 30 pin iPod connector has extra pins for all sorts of things... USB in, power in, power out, audio-in, audio-out, video-out, and some spares for when Apple feels like new features. Yes, they could have 3 standard plugs across the bottom but the dock has been a pretty good socket the last 5 years or so... it's not going anywhere. The adapter lets them make all the iPods the same and pickup whatever standard connectors they feel like blessing the masses with in the adapter, making things cheaper for the majority of users that will never bother with anything but the standard cable.
I'll be blunt, I bought all the cables for my last iPod and never actually USED them for more than a curiosity (ok, I have an Apple TV for connecting to my TV and it has HDMI out and Component) I would like to see a dual alarm bedside clock that also pulls out the video to something 6-8" or so.
most of the time it would be that they don't have time to look up your info when they do find stolen stuff... They'd read off 2-3 numbers that hit the list then stock the rest and probably never even enter the stuff as "recovered". It's just "stuff" after all.
Because a Kindle or Cell phone is tied to it's network 24x7 and THEY retain complete rights to modify the devices content under the software EULA and network TOS. If they can remotely deactivate it or modify it's content, why can't they mark the device "lost or stolen" at the owner/contract holder's request? A big part of criminal enterprise and drug trading is stealing phones to use with "throw away" SIM cards they get away with it for a few days then move on. Returning a lost phone for a regular person is pretty much dumb luck. Nobody really wants to take the devices back, let alone look them up to reconnect with their owners...it's damn sloppy and they benefit from continually tying you to extra contract extensions rather than trying to lock the merchandise you already purchased from them.
Exactly, they could put a "ready for resale" screen on the device when you remove the account properly, something different than when it's new from the box.
The whole deal is that Amazon reserves the right and has demonstrated they will take THEIR property back from the device... if the IP owner demands, but they won't use similar technology to secure the device for it's OWNER. They HAVE ALREADY done this for themselves, they just won't do it for YOU... that's why people are questioning it.
usually what happens is that they do find somebody with a horde of stolen stuff.. and they prosecute for X number of stolen items from X places. They just never bother to tell YOU where they put the evidence and it goes out the back door of the police station. The reports help find a pattern of habitual offenders in the area and that is useful to them... but YOU will never here about that... after all, EVERYBODY is a suspect.
most people on the board don't want the device tracked down, just disabled. That would discourage petty theft of things like Kindles and Cell phones and is trivially easy to do considering ownership of the network and the CONTENTS OF THE DEVICE are claimed by Amazon/Telcos under TOS. Considering Amazon can remotely take back a book and there's nothing the OWNER of the device can do it's entirely hypocritical not to at least disable a device reported lost or stolen...
They could at least take a registration number and make the person in possession of the device phone in to reactivate it.
The Kindle is a resource for Amazon's marketing whether YOU own it or not. If it's lost they can easily take away THEIR books and THEIR liability to the credit card company. What's left is an empty device waiting for a new credit card to start buying stuff.... Amazon's knows YOU will pay another $300 to read the books you've bought so a "free" Kindle in the wild is easy money for them.
That's sad because $300 is still more than a week' s pay for many young and older people.
Ironically, Cops spend a good deal of time at the local mall arresting people for shoplifting stuff under $50.
but you can't USE the device unless you transfer the account to a new credit card. As the device is completely locked to Amazon it could be treated much like a WoW account sale where you have to sell your serial number through Amazon's service or it's not legit. Just handing the device off wouldn't be official and you'd have to prove you bought the device somehow.
The whole thing is egg squarely on amazon's face for one simple reason... remember the books they DELETED REMOTELY a few weeks ago. They DO have the power to find wayward accounts, and they DO have the ability to edit materials on the Kindle against user wishes.. more importantly, they have demonstrated they CAN and WILL use this ability.
Now that they've demonstrated this ability to cover THEIR ASSES... why can't they issue a "locking" order to YOUR device? Something like pay $25 and issue a locking code to your lost device and you'd get a password via email. Then the device would display that it was locked and that that you needed to call Kindle and give them the device code...
The key to why they won't do this is simple. They can take care of THEIR liability remotely but not yours. They can cancel your account so that you don't make THEM liable for reversed CC charges. It's not AMAZON'S $300 that's lost... in fact your lost Kindle is now a potential new account that somebody might buy books for... that's marketing bucks!!
ha, ha silly rabbits...
AS400/iseries/system i... doing it for decades... laughing now.
Although you could include Vax and HP's E-series mini-computers as well in the "enterprise appliance" category.
The browser is the new "green screen".
why would HP want it? They sold out their hardware folks for Intel's Itanium a long time ago... shut down Alpha, Vax, etc... it was gruesome.
Maybe that will fix "reboot" as the first step of every MS diagnostic routine!
When touching the hardware is expensive it makes you take planning your code and vetting your errors more seriously... THAT is the point of the move.
Server grade equipment shouldn't be having hardware issues anymore not detected by the management module. In something like a POWER BladeCenter if you have power to the chassis at all, you can do nearly everything remotely you can do standing in the room. Unless it has a physical problem it'll run forever like that.
more importantly WHO your telling. The emergency operator don't know you from a ghost. On the other hand if you tell a buddy or neighbor you took a "shortcut" between A & B they're going to be within a few feet in minutes.. and often all you need is a helping hand... not the fire brigade and 6pm news.
cad software used to do this. You had to use a special encryption program to move the key file from one machine to a floppy and re-encrypt it on the new machine. In the internet age they tie these to an account, so it's uniquely written to (cpu serial number/os/ram/etc) every time it's moved. iTunes does something like this already when it ties the protected media files to your iTunes account and then retrieves the master key for your system/account when you sign in online. It's possible, the trouble is the liability for "lost" keys makes it troublesome.. but it might work in an "always on" internet world.
Please provide an example of ANY use in history of this UUID that I created.
If not, STFU, I can get a valid patent on it.
Because after all, if it's never been done, it must be patentable.
As far as the PTO is concerned after Regan came to office that was the official policy... the PTO is a "profit center" and the Republicans felt they should be giving out as many patents as they could to increase revenue. If an inventor didn't file, it's not the government's fault... "anybody" can file a patent (for significantly rich values of anybody... but we're republicans after all) It's not the PTOs job to know about ALL invention, only the patents they have granted and widely published/produced items. The idea was to take the money, award the patent if there is nobody else complaining about it.
Patents and Copyright grants are the New Nobility of the 21st century much like grants to castles were the right to power of the previous centuries.
While not admissible, it's certainly worth his lawyer getting their names to check them out. Even if its hearsay, they heard it from SOMEBODY, and maybe that person didn't tell the cops everything, or the witness is telling things to other people.
Guy is accused of heinous murder... anybody talking to their buddies, and the rest of the internet, and not to the police is not doing their civic duty to get this guy a fair trial. If somebody told different information in an internet post than they told the investigators, that's definitely worth knowing.
Except YOU won't be designing the robots... that will be the guy in China who's 50% cheaper than you!
There's only room for so many people "to try to be their best." The rest find work elsewhere.
for instance a company might host their outside sales contacts, meetings, and such at salespeople.com that lets them have offices all over the world and the COMPANY doesn't have to pay to manage all the VPN connections.. if your sales staff can get to a web page, they're in... all the security, networking, bandwidth is managed by the cloud. For small businesses it will open up new ways of doing business and lower costs of IT from paying for rooms of servers and admins to "plug it in" simplicity of a utility.
Except... for those same small businesses, the "cheap" plans are going to use YOUR sales force to market THEIR products too. What's to stop them from pulling a mailing list from YOUR companies customer info stored on THEIR hardware (which they claim total ownership of and disclaim all warranty for). What's to stop that data from being sold off and ending up in your competitor's hands as part of "routine sales operations" for the Cloud host? Dealing with the big guys they have the horsepower to easily correlate your data with 10 other customers and sell it to the highest bidder. Of course they'll "guarantee" your data won't be shared.. if you update from the "starter" account to the enterprise account... but they can't make any promises....
It's like how the US goes after Korean (and Japanese/Taiwan) semi-conductor makers like Samsung and Hynix on a regular basis because the "industry" is "so" corrupt... but Micron (the only US maker left) is always absent from the trials ... they did everything the other guys did but get a slap on the wrist, usually out of court, and turn "witness" on the other semiconductor makers.
There's plenty of carbon already stored below earth... we keep digging it up!!!
Plants are pretty good at storing carbon.. we keep cutting them down....
There is a cycle to warm and cold spells in the earth. Right now recorded history only tracks about 4,000 years in the East. Even 1500 years ago Europe was several degrees warmer allowing agrarian societies to flourish in middle Norway and Sweden and Russia, more north than would be habitable by "bronze age" peoples today. That was when Romans were building cities all the way to Britain and Vikings were traveling the North Atlantic in open air boats. Then it got colder and drove everybody south to Britian and France... (and pushed them to sac Rome)
The history of the early middle ages is one of drastic environmental change crushing civilization in on itself for a thousand years, they didn't write about it, they just moved on when they couldn't grow food to live on..until the plague wiped enough people out (living on top of each other in crowded cities, with cyclical famine cycles) to balance what the environment could provide. Africa is in the middle of something similar right now and the humans are in chaos.
The whole problem is that the earth already had a pretty good carbon encapsulation program... stored in millions of square miles of buried plants and animals!!! If we'd stop digging them up and releasing the carbon into the air we'd be just fine.
Plants are the most efficient carbon encapsulation mechanism... We just need fast growing plants to pull down the CO2, generate Oxygen, and then bury them somehow underground. If only there were somewhere with big deep holes?
the first round of astronauts would probably be "fixed" for health reasons to reduce complications and so they're not dealing with unprepared babies... that would wreck the mission if they showed up after a two year trip with toddlers!