What gets me here is how many people can't figure out that what is being measured is the difference of change of underpowered against the normal (standard voltage). Which of course it is very close but slightly less than the difference in power consumption, all of the power stored in the battery is eventually converted into heat (thermodynamic energy) the slightly smaller efficiency is due imperfect measurement and containment. It doesn't matter what the scale or starting point is as long as the scale is linear.
Actually if you are selling food, or even just getting a good feeling about a whole bunch of people hanging out and paying attention to you, you have just received something of value, and are expected compensate those who helped you create this atmosphere. Fortunately most bars/venues already have a license to play most music (BMI/ASCAP), if they don't an ASCAP/BMI lawyer will be contacting them with a date and time that an uncompensated BMI/ASCAP song was played in their establishment.
Firefox has had overflow bugs, up to 1.0.6 my browser crashed daily on pitchforkmedia.com and a few other sites. If sites that didn't want to crash it was taking it down, imagine what would happen if some smart russians had tried to put something on allmp3.com. Then there is the guy who built the malformed html creator and took down all the browsers EXCEPT IE in less than an hour (I know FF fixed these problems in 1.0.5 or so, but you were the one who brought up fixed bugs in IE). While no one bothered to build exploits (why would they you only need to infect a few percent of IE machines to get more than the entire firefox install base)
That makes sense, I guess all the ones that I have tried to install want access to Local Machine, Current Configuration or Root (AKA not inteligently written). As it is though a firefox extension has the same abilities to access the registry (look at nsIWindowsRegKey for the easiest way)
Didn't do anything to my machine. Popped up a few windows, but that happens with firefox all the time as well (yes I have popups off for both but some still sneak through). I have default security set on IE, and don't run a virus scanner or spyware tool as I have never needed one as I only install completely trusted software.
Activex components don't install without either, an admin running an app that does the install, or an admin accepts an ActiveX security dialog. The same is true with firefox. Either the user accepts the extension, or a user run app drops the extension in he extensions directory (no dialog, but it's name shows up in the extensions dialog, IE has something similar).
As can Firefox extensions, which can do anything that the user has permissions for. Actually you don't need to be an administrator, just put it a "pointer file" in the profiles extensions directory pointing to a directory with a chrome.manifest file.
I'm, sorry,, but how does alexa "trick" people into installing it? Infact I was forced to close their privacy policy to install it, which made it quite clear that it would track my net usage. Since Alexa is uninstalled using "Add/Remove Programs" how is a third party app needed. The google toolbar with pagerank on tracks users in exactly the same way. (also upfront about it.)
Why is it spyware anymore than the Google Toolbar with Pagerank on, or for that matter the fact that there are google bugs all over the internet? Alexa is not bundled with anything and is very easy to unistall (use add remove programs).
I guess you guys failed to read the words "CAN OFTEN" in my comment title. Not that it is known that this particular one does, but anytime you have an app crash from an outside influence it is what else that is possible to do with it isn't always known and can lead to much more than just a DOS. While you can delude yourself into thinking that this is nothing. Remember that the IE "critical" bug from last week was just a DOS for six months.
When an app crashes (firefox does quite often for me) it means that it is doing something that the programmer didn't expect. That could be all sorts of things, from taking all the cpu, to writing to memory that it shouldn't be. Most overflow exploits started as mere crashes.
It's funny that you guys rip on Microsoft so, but at least Bill Gates is doing a buttload of good in the poorest area's of the world. (Notice that Brin and Page used "doing good" as an excuse to buy a Boeing 737)
Sorry, but amazon doesn't try to sell you overprice accessories, nor do they threaten to charge a "restocking fee" for items they will never ship if you cancel, plus they don't charge your credit card until they ship your item. That said, they do seem to have issues with properly estimating the the availability for anything that they don't have in stock, and I have repeatedly houded they customer service about this (the number is something like 800-750-7575 [slate.com prints it every year])
There is a monopoly on that particular recording of the song. However you are free to find another recording that is priced more to your liking. Or you could also find another artist who writes and plays similar songs that will fill your need at the right price.
people use to be able to ammend their application forever to effectively extend their patent, but now the expire 20 years after filing PERIOD. While drug companies change their formula slightlty and re-patent, the original formula is available for generics.
While I hold no place in my heart for microsoft. Quicktime appears to be having a very similar problem. But also remember that the libjpeg and libz also had similar problems exploitable on Linux patched in the last year. Expecting an OS, ANY OS to save you is a bigger security threat than some exploitable jpeg code.
Actually population growth is slowing quite dramatically and there is an expectation that the world population will hit a maximum of about 9 billion people (only 50% higher than today). The easiest/cheapest way to deal with over population is to educate women in the third world. Then the next best way would be for humans to populate the arctic and oceans (more than 2/3rds of the world surface)
The thing that sent me over the edge was a film that was #1 (short wait when it first became #1) in my queue for SIX WEEKS without being sent. I emailed them, they denied any sort of prioritization of customers. I had a friend of mine who rarely returns his films add it to his queue, it shipped in 24 hours. Still there was not a copy for me. I emailed them again with a link to the website which empirically determined their algorithm and had a copy of a letter stating the prioritization, again they denied any prioritization. Due to the fact I really wanted to watch that one movie, I simply returned more than half of the other movies that they sent immediately (lowering my priority, however they claimed it had no effect). I then created a new account with a different credit card. Made screen shots of both queues with this movie in it, which was sent in 24 hours to this new account. Emailed them those images, and called them on the phone. The customer service person I first talked to again denied the prioritization, however I asked to speak to someone higher because I think they are bordering on "Fraud". At that point someone got on the phone and told me that they do prioritize. I immediately canceled my account and complained to the FTC and BBB.
A check for $70 was received 2 months later.
a few questions Why should ANYONE be screwed?
What could they do differently?
A) Disclose this straight away! B) have some time weighting on the priority C) Purchase more copies of films that are in the "Very Long Wait" status. (they can always sell them later) D) Send emails asking people to return films that have languished (offer a credit).
The bottom line is, I was not making Netflix any money so my account was not wanted.
In the end I got my cash back and convinced several Pure Profit Accounts (friends who never return their films) to cancel their monthly netflix payout.
The big problem with this scheme is that netflix denies it exists, until you get to the third tier of customer service. I went back and forth with them for a couple of weeks, took screen shots of multiple accounts that had different wait times for the same movies (a brand new account had "ships in 24 hours", the old account had "very long wait" on a film that when first reached the top of my queue was "short wait"). A much bigger problem is that your priority is the highest during the 14 day trial period, and the moment they bill your credit card your priority drops. Which probably is a type of false advertising, as they advertise the 14 day trial period as just that, the type of service you should expect. However that is not the service you receive, unless you zero movies out in a billing cycle. Also this algorithm creates artificial shortages in films that they don't have a large stock of as those films will end up on the top of the DVD players of people who simply never send back their films.
In the end, my complaining to netflix, the BBB, and the FTC I got back two months worth of netflix service fees.
Because amazon asked the publishers if they wanted to be included in "search inside the book" instead of demanding that the publishers tell them if the didn't want to be included.
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What gets me here is how many people can't figure out that what is being measured is the difference of change of underpowered against the normal (standard voltage). Which of course it is very close but slightly less than the difference in power consumption, all of the power stored in the battery is eventually converted into heat (thermodynamic energy) the slightly smaller efficiency is due imperfect measurement and containment. It doesn't matter what the scale or starting point is as long as the scale is linear.
It's unlikely that the settlements received pay anything more than the legal costs of extracting them.
Actually if you are selling food, or even just getting a good feeling about a whole bunch of people hanging out and paying attention to you, you have just received something of value, and are expected compensate those who helped you create this atmosphere. Fortunately most bars/venues already have a license to play most music (BMI/ASCAP), if they don't an ASCAP/BMI lawyer will be contacting them with a date and time that an uncompensated BMI/ASCAP song was played in their establishment.
Firefox has had overflow bugs, up to 1.0.6 my browser crashed daily on pitchforkmedia.com and a few other sites. If sites that didn't want to crash it was taking it down, imagine what would happen if some smart russians had tried to put something on allmp3.com. Then there is the guy who built the malformed html creator and took down all the browsers EXCEPT IE in less than an hour (I know FF fixed these problems in 1.0.5 or so, but you were the one who brought up fixed bugs in IE). While no one bothered to build exploits (why would they you only need to infect a few percent of IE machines to get more than the entire firefox install base)
That makes sense, I guess all the ones that I have tried to install want access to Local Machine, Current Configuration or Root (AKA not inteligently written). As it is though a firefox extension has the same abilities to access the registry (look at nsIWindowsRegKey for the easiest way)
Didn't do anything to my machine. Popped up a few windows, but that happens with firefox all the time as well (yes I have popups off for both but some still sneak through). I have default security set on IE, and don't run a virus scanner or spyware tool as I have never needed one as I only install completely trusted software.
Activex components don't install without either, an admin running an app that does the install, or an admin accepts an ActiveX security dialog. The same is true with firefox. Either the user accepts the extension, or a user run app drops the extension in he extensions directory (no dialog, but it's name shows up in the extensions dialog, IE has something similar).
As can Firefox extensions, which can do anything that the user has permissions for. Actually you don't need to be an administrator, just put it a "pointer file" in the profiles extensions directory pointing to a directory with a chrome.manifest file.
I'm, sorry,, but how does alexa "trick" people into installing it? Infact I was forced to close their privacy policy to install it, which made it quite clear that it would track my net usage. Since Alexa is uninstalled using "Add/Remove Programs" how is a third party app needed. The google toolbar with pagerank on tracks users in exactly the same way. (also upfront about it.)
Why is it spyware anymore than the Google Toolbar with Pagerank on, or for that matter the fact that there are google bugs all over the internet? Alexa is not bundled with anything and is very easy to unistall (use add remove programs).
I guess you guys failed to read the words "CAN OFTEN" in my comment title. Not that it is known that this particular one does, but anytime you have an app crash from an outside influence it is what else that is possible to do with it isn't always known and can lead to much more than just a DOS. While you can delude yourself into thinking that this is nothing. Remember that the IE "critical" bug from last week was just a DOS for six months.
When an app crashes (firefox does quite often for me) it means that it is doing something that the programmer didn't expect. That could be all sorts of things, from taking all the cpu, to writing to memory that it shouldn't be. Most overflow exploits started as mere crashes.
It's funny that you guys rip on Microsoft so, but at least Bill Gates is doing a buttload of good in the poorest area's of the world. (Notice that Brin and Page used "doing good" as an excuse to buy a Boeing 737)
Didn't Saturday Night Live do a parody of these places once. Something with Rob Schneider with a Sephardic Big and Tall shop?
Sorry, but amazon doesn't try to sell you overprice accessories, nor do they threaten to charge a "restocking fee" for items they will never ship if you cancel, plus they don't charge your credit card until they ship your item. That said, they do seem to have issues with properly estimating the the availability for anything that they don't have in stock, and I have repeatedly houded they customer service about this (the number is something like 800-750-7575 [slate.com prints it every year])
I agree with everthing you say except the lead singer of the postal service (and death cab) is Ben Gibbard.
There is a monopoly on that particular recording of the song. However you are free to find another recording that is priced more to your liking. Or you could also find another artist who writes and plays similar songs that will fill your need at the right price.
I think you have pretty much proven this guy's point.
If you bothered to read the first paragraph of the article you would have noticed that this is about DVD PLAYERS and HiFi[sic] systems.
people use to be able to ammend their application forever to effectively extend their patent, but now the expire 20 years after filing PERIOD. While drug companies change their formula slightlty and re-patent, the original formula is available for generics.
While I hold no place in my heart for microsoft. Quicktime appears to be having a very similar problem. But also remember that the libjpeg and libz also had similar problems exploitable on Linux patched in the last year. Expecting an OS, ANY OS to save you is a bigger security threat than some exploitable jpeg code.
Actually population growth is slowing quite dramatically and there is an expectation that the world population will hit a maximum of about 9 billion people (only 50% higher than today). The easiest/cheapest way to deal with over population is to educate women in the third world. Then the next best way would be for humans to populate the arctic and oceans (more than 2/3rds of the world surface)
Thats great if it only takes a couple of days
The thing that sent me over the edge was a film that was #1 (short wait when it first became #1) in my queue for SIX WEEKS without being sent. I emailed them, they denied any sort of prioritization of customers. I had a friend of mine who rarely returns his films add it to his queue, it shipped in 24 hours. Still there was not a copy for me. I emailed them again with a link to the website which empirically determined their algorithm and had a copy of a letter stating the prioritization, again they denied any prioritization. Due to the fact I really wanted to watch that one movie, I simply returned more than half of the other movies that they sent immediately (lowering my priority, however they claimed it had no effect). I then created a new account with a different credit card. Made screen shots of both queues with this movie in it, which was sent in 24 hours to this new account. Emailed them those images, and called them on the phone. The customer service person I first talked to again denied the prioritization, however I asked to speak to someone higher because I think they are bordering on "Fraud". At that point someone got on the phone and told me that they do prioritize. I immediately canceled my account and complained to the FTC and BBB.
A check for $70 was received 2 months later.
a few questions
Why should ANYONE be screwed?
What could they do differently?
A) Disclose this straight away!
B) have some time weighting on the priority
C) Purchase more copies of films that are in the "Very Long Wait" status. (they can always sell them later)
D) Send emails asking people to return films that have languished (offer a credit).
The bottom line is, I was not making Netflix any money so my account was not wanted.
In the end I got my cash back and convinced several Pure Profit Accounts (friends who never return their films) to cancel their monthly netflix payout.
The big problem with this scheme is that netflix denies it exists, until you get to the third tier of customer service. I went back and forth with them for a couple of weeks, took screen shots of multiple accounts that had different wait times for the same movies (a brand new account had "ships in 24 hours", the old account had "very long wait" on a film that when first reached the top of my queue was "short wait"). A much bigger problem is that your priority is the highest during the 14 day trial period, and the moment they bill your credit card your priority drops. Which probably is a type of false advertising, as they advertise the 14 day trial period as just that, the type of service you should expect. However that is not the service you receive, unless you zero movies out in a billing cycle. Also this algorithm creates artificial shortages in films that they don't have a large stock of as those films will end up on the top of the DVD players of people who simply never send back their films.
In the end, my complaining to netflix, the BBB, and the FTC I got back two months worth of netflix service fees.
Because amazon asked the publishers if they wanted to be included in "search inside the book" instead of demanding that the publishers tell them if the didn't want to be included.