Show them how quickly discovered vulnerabilities are patched and how much discussion each bug receives. Ask the competitors to provide access to their discussion groups and bug logs. Compare. Contrast.
WRT to item C on your list: birth control pills. It would be a completely different world without that medical wonder. Suddenly having hundreds of millions more fertile women in this world would cause lots o' problems.
This is Slashdot. No one here has any reason to worry about impregnating fertile women.
True, you're not talking about retirement, but you want to suck out every last bit of usable capacity from your employees just as the link implies. I do hope I never, ever meet you, much less work for you!
It's not only the number of light bulbs that's important here. One must also ask the wattage of each bulb in order to truly understand the amount of power represented. Are we talking 100 watt bulbs? Or 25 watts? Incandescent, LED, or CFL? The article is stunningly silent on this point...
I set up a schedule of payments based on each bill's due date. I have Quicken remind me that a certain bill is due 8 days before the scheduled date. When I get a reminder, I write a check and mail it, the 8 days serving as a buffer period for the uncertainties of snail mail. That's my "automation". I resort to electronic bill pay only if something very urgent comes up that prevents me from writing a check in time to mail a payment. Over the last five years I can count the number of such unusual scenarios on one hand.
Seriously, though, if the police put a tracker on my car, and are unable to produce documentation demonstrating that they have done so, is the tracker mine if I discover it before they remove it?
Since they are reluctant to acknowlege that they even use the device I'd guess they would not care to press the matter due to the "Barbara Streisand" effect that any attendant lawsuit might produce.
Here's a giggle: let's say you discover that you have been so tagged. You go to a public garage, remove the device, and plant it on the car next to you. Hilarity ensues...
The difference is that when there is a police officer tracking you, it is for a specific purpose and there is a fairly high cost associated with that limiting the use of such surveillance. With the significant and continuing decreases in GPS tracker costs, far greater numbers of people can be tracked indiscriminately "just in case" they might be connected with someone who is a legitimate target of investigation. The potential for overwhelming and pervasive surveilance is such that the current legal framework is inadequate to address the potential for abuse, especially when, as the ACLU notes, such tracking is used in conjunction with license plate scanners and the like.
Do you really want to be under round-the-clock surveillance "just because"?
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The current 25-to life is pretty harsh, and expensive to boot. Let's just bury him (alive) next to her and be done with it. Reduces his sentence pretty drastically, and saves society a shitload of $$$.
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Get large bore conduits like the stuff used for electrical wiring. Run the fiber through that. That should at least slow them down a bit, yes?
Well, there was Clippy...
Show them how quickly discovered vulnerabilities are patched and how much discussion each bug receives. Ask the competitors to provide access to their discussion groups and bug logs. Compare. Contrast.
That we're all living on a small anti-counterfeiting patch on God's MasterCard?
This is Slashdot. No one here has any reason to worry about impregnating fertile women.
Better start getting quotes from Geico on upgraded insurance then...
Wow! Have I got a poster for you!
http://despair.com/retirement.html
True, you're not talking about retirement, but you want to suck out every last bit of usable capacity from your employees just as the link implies. I do hope I never, ever meet you, much less work for you!
now has a completely new business model and revenue stream...
It'll be like "Dallas" or "Knot's Landing", but with spaceships? Wow!
"Do you know COBOL"?
Maybe he can get Martha Stewart's old cell. Should be a nice homey place...
It's not only the number of light bulbs that's important here. One must also ask the wattage of each bulb in order to truly understand the amount of power represented. Are we talking 100 watt bulbs? Or 25 watts? Incandescent, LED, or CFL? The article is stunningly silent on this point...
Someone pulled the plug. We're going to circle the drain for a bit and then disappear forever into the galactic sewer line...
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000905.html/
We don't need no stinkin' free speech anyway, now do we?
I set up a schedule of payments based on each bill's due date. I have Quicken remind me that a certain bill is due 8 days before the scheduled date. When I get a reminder, I write a check and mail it, the 8 days serving as a buffer period for the uncertainties of snail mail. That's my "automation". I resort to electronic bill pay only if something very urgent comes up that prevents me from writing a check in time to mail a payment. Over the last five years I can count the number of such unusual scenarios on one hand.
Since they are reluctant to acknowlege that they even use the device I'd guess they would not care to press the matter due to the "Barbara Streisand" effect that any attendant lawsuit might produce.
Here's a giggle: let's say you discover that you have been so tagged. You go to a public garage, remove the device, and plant it on the car next to you. Hilarity ensues...
The difference is that when there is a police officer tracking you, it is for a specific purpose and there is a fairly high cost associated with that limiting the use of such surveillance. With the significant and continuing decreases in GPS tracker costs, far greater numbers of people can be tracked indiscriminately "just in case" they might be connected with someone who is a legitimate target of investigation. The potential for overwhelming and pervasive surveilance is such that the current legal framework is inadequate to address the potential for abuse, especially when, as the ACLU notes, such tracking is used in conjunction with license plate scanners and the like.
Do you really want to be under round-the-clock surveillance "just because"?
All that means is that you'll hit your monthly caps in three days instead of four...
With a standardized tool set we should be able to crank out all that new assembly code lickety-split!
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you use Firefox 3.0, disable the "feature". Go to Tools->Addons and turn it off.
Each drive has at least four platters. Skeet shooting, anyone?
Something comes to mind about stones and glass houses... Now what was that again...
The current 25-to life is pretty harsh, and expensive to boot. Let's just bury him (alive) next to her and be done with it. Reduces his sentence pretty drastically, and saves society a shitload of $$$.