In other news, the SEC has expelled embedded journalists from Wall Street for reporting new that has endagered the jobs of Wall Street insiders. bbspot.com
I looked into it last year when they started the pilot program, because I live in Cablevision's service area, and they refuse to carry Yankee games. You needed a credit card to subscribe, and if the zip on the credit card used to pay is in the local area you wouldn't be allowed to watch that teams games period. I image the deal is pretty much the same this year, and that they'll just use the IP locator to catch people who have friends or relatives in other states pay the fee and for them, and then watch local games. Normally I would say that a business wouldn't go around fining and banning customers just for not understanding and completely complying with an arcane terms of services agreement. But the after debacle that was the baseball season last year, I wouldn't bet on it.
If the user-location service proves ineffective, what will the MLB do?
From the article:
Quova's information would be compared with ZIP codes attached to credit cards used for payment, he said. When a mismatch is identified, customer service representatives will telephone users. Anyone caught intentionally circumventing the system will be banned and fined $100, automatically charged to their credit cards, Bowman said.
... and they're prepared to risk a test case that could destroy their whole threat model (I doubt it).
Yes, but are you willing risk a test case that brings a $250,000 and 5 years in prison, or whatever the exact copyright infringement penalty is, for every alleged illegal copy. (I doubt it too).
They probably do send those letters based on mailing lists from business magazines or professional organizations. My father is a CPA, and he gets some trade mags at our house, but he does no business at home. About a year or two ago we got a letter, I don't remeber the details, but it was threatening an audit of our software liscenses. I tossed it, the carbon copy that came three weeks later, and never heard anything more about it.
As I understand it the shuttle reenters the atmosphere at a 40 degree angle. This steep angle then causes drag, slowing the craft, and generating extreme heat in the process. I was wondering, if damage had been suspected, if it would have been possible to reenter the atmosphere at a smaller angle to reduce the heat load?
.... and therefore you may teleport me as soon as your device is 99,99999% secure....
I'll bet you'd use it long before then, no other transportation is anywhere near that good. Is dying in a teleporter that much worse than dying in a car accident?
We may be heading in that direction. The IRS is bothered by the slow adoption of electronic filing. The cause for this seems to be mostly the cost of electronic filing(avg.$15) vs. a stamp($0.37 I think). Since it costs the IRS a lot more to process a paper return than it does an electronic return they are considering this a possiblity to increase electronic filing.
It may still be keyed to the Volume Serial Number. From the TurboTax faq:
"If you reinstall TurboTax to the same hard disk that it was previously activated on, you do not need to activate it again."
I've used turbotax for about 5 years now. I acutually found it easier this year because Intuit automatically mailed me the CD before I got around to ordering it. For me anyway having the product tied to a particular computer was worth the tradeoff of not having to spend the extra time buying the CD.
I think the whole H1-B program is flawed. The fact that the visa is tied to a specific company sponsor means that the employer has the implied threat of deportation to use in any wage negotiation. This has to be a big factor in the lower wages paid to H1-B workers. I would rather see increased numbers of immigrants on a permanent resident/citizenship track than a reformed guest worker program.
May be that should be :
P.S Oh, and if anyone thinks I speak for any of the companies I have worked for or the company I now work for -- I *think* you're out of your mind.
Regarding the deregulated airlines stock prices decreasing, this should be expected if deregulation is a sucess. The share price of a monopolistic company that faces the prospect of losing its monoply and high profits will obviously be worth less than it was a monoply. The expecption to this was the complete failure of degregulation in the California electricity market, where Enron and Dynergy, among others, were able to game the system and make more money after "deregulation".
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In other news, the SEC has expelled embedded journalists from Wall Street for reporting new that has endagered the jobs of Wall Street insiders. bbspot.com
I looked into it last year when they started the pilot program, because I live in Cablevision's service area, and they refuse to carry Yankee games. You needed a credit card to subscribe, and if the zip on the credit card used to pay is in the local area you wouldn't be allowed to watch that teams games period. I image the deal is pretty much the same this year, and that they'll just use the IP locator to catch people who have friends or relatives in other states pay the fee and for them, and then watch local games. Normally I would say that a business wouldn't go around fining and banning customers just for not understanding and completely complying with an arcane terms of services agreement. But the after debacle that was the baseball season last year, I wouldn't bet on it.
If the user-location service proves ineffective, what will the MLB do?
From the article:
Quova's information would be compared with ZIP codes attached to credit cards used for payment, he said. When a mismatch is identified, customer service representatives will telephone users. Anyone caught intentionally circumventing the system will be banned and fined $100, automatically charged to their credit cards, Bowman said.
Diversity isn't security through obscurity, it's simply insuring that the same exploit can't be used to attack the entire system.
Skip the math and physics classes, because you don't want to be an engineer.
Yes, but are you willing risk a test case that brings a $250,000 and 5 years in prison, or whatever the exact copyright infringement penalty is, for every alleged illegal copy. (I doubt it too).
They probably do send those letters based on mailing lists from business magazines or professional organizations. My father is a CPA, and he gets some trade mags at our house, but he does no business at home. About a year or two ago we got a letter, I don't remeber the details, but it was threatening an audit of our software liscenses. I tossed it, the carbon copy that came three weeks later, and never heard anything more about it.
As I understand it the shuttle reenters the atmosphere at a 40 degree angle. This steep angle then causes drag, slowing the craft, and generating extreme heat in the process. I was wondering, if damage had been suspected, if it would have been possible to reenter the atmosphere at a smaller angle to reduce the heat load?
I'll bet you'd use it long before then, no other transportation is anywhere near that good. Is dying in a teleporter that much worse than dying in a car accident?
The book was his whole reason for getting a court approved laptop. It had word processing software, but was supposedly unable to access the internet.
We may be heading in that direction. The IRS is bothered by the slow adoption of electronic filing. The cause for this seems to be mostly the cost of electronic filing(avg.$15) vs. a stamp($0.37 I think). Since it costs the IRS a lot more to process a paper return than it does an electronic return they are considering this a possiblity to increase electronic filing.
It may still be keyed to the Volume Serial Number. From the TurboTax faq: "If you reinstall TurboTax to the same hard disk that it was previously activated on, you do not need to activate it again."
I've used turbotax for about 5 years now. I acutually found it easier this year because Intuit automatically mailed me the CD before I got around to ordering it. For me anyway having the product tied to a particular computer was worth the tradeoff of not having to spend the extra time buying the CD.
I think the whole H1-B program is flawed. The fact that the visa is tied to a specific company sponsor means that the employer has the implied threat of deportation to use in any wage negotiation. This has to be a big factor in the lower wages paid to H1-B workers. I would rather see increased numbers of immigrants on a permanent resident/citizenship track than a reformed guest worker program.
May be that should be : P.S Oh, and if anyone thinks I speak for any of the companies I have worked for or the company I now work for -- I *think* you're out of your mind.
Exactly, without stress testing of the materials used to build the bridge, it's virtually impossible to evaluate the design anyway.
Regarding the deregulated airlines stock prices decreasing, this should be expected if deregulation is a sucess. The share price of a monopolistic company that faces the prospect of losing its monoply and high profits will obviously be worth less than it was a monoply. The expecption to this was the complete failure of degregulation in the California electricity market, where Enron and Dynergy, among others, were able to game the system and make more money after "deregulation".