Question a: What does he normally eat Question b: What did he eat at KFC (assuming chicken, it wouldn't be so far out from the regular diet that he wouldn't like it)
I know people from other countries that come here and find many desserts etc too sweet. They do like candy, etc, but the syropy stuff that people often love in N. America is way too much for them.
Try feeding that same dude a Big Mac with salty fries and a Shamrock Shake.
It's also a good reason why clauses blocking class-action are bad, and should be illegal. People in these sort of situations generally CAN'T afford a lawyer to fight the abuse that IS happening. However they can form a class action. They might not get compensated financially, but they can punish the offending company and force them to clean up their act.
It seems to me something like this (actual units made up)
We have a contract to buy at least 2000 units of power. We only used 1700 units.
Power company will charge us a fine greatly in excess of 300 units power. This gives financial incentive to needlessly use power. The proper thing would be to change a MINIMUM of 2000 units power, not an excessive fine for under-utilization. The power company gets paid for the expected usage, and nobody has to waste power to save money.
Unfortunately, it seems that while what they did wasn't really reasonable, the alternative was also unreasonable..
However, beyond that, it appears that their power usage was down because they were running on diesel backup generators a lot of the time, apparently during maintenance etc. So maybe the power company needs to clean up its billing (don't fine in excess of power not used), and MS needs to fix things so that maintenance doesn't spend a lot of time running polluting diesel generators.
Production moved to China because... it was cheaper
I believe this was also related to health regulations. In the USA there's a lot more employers need to do to ensure worker safety etc. Unfortunately it's cheaper to just send the work to China than comply for many companies.
However, I don't believe this would preclude a contract-clause which prevents former employers from divulging proprietary information on the Google mapping application. If they start sharing code which belongs to Google or other such things then it's going to get messy.
but I have not heard one Catholic priest say that child abuse is right
What you say and what you do are two different things. If you decry violence against women, but beat your wife (or support people who beat their wives) behind the scenes, then you're either a thug, a hypocrite, or both.
No, they may not "say" that it's OK. But they knowingly covered it up many, many times, moving offenders around to abuse other children rather than having them face the law.
On the other hand, companies often allocate two 15-minute breaks which are intended for things like grabbing some air, or having a cig etc. These are fairly predicable and can be scheduled accordingly.
Using the can because the cafeteria's food gave you gastrointestinal distress, or because you have IBS, whatever is a bit of a different beast. It's a need that varies in schedule and duration, and shouldn't be grouped together with other breaks.
Where - to my understanding - it's a legal industry. At least in the US it would have a bad rep because it's also an illegal profession, but in Germany red-light districts are regulated and legit.
I agree that storing the password is dumb, mainly because there's currently no really secure way to do so with authentication methods that don't require a strict set of authenticators (password, card, etc).
I wasn't saying that they should be storing the password, just that it seems impossed to use a non-password measure and then still use any other resources that might require a password-based component (such as domain logins).
Fingerprints are too "fuzzy" for use as a password, so you end up with something where "close enough" is good enough for login, but will not likely be good enough to replace the password itself (so you get dumb things like storing the password in the file, convenience instead of actual security)
I think it's more that nobody wants to be tracked all the time
There are times when I mind tracking, and times I don't. If I were - for example - browsing "adult" sites, I'd probably not want to be tracked, particularly if said tracking manages to tie my browsing history between home and work, etc.
On the other hand, if advertisers want to use tracking to determine that I like geeky stuff and am shopping for a new gaming rig, I'm not going to complain if they show me ads for CPU's that are on sale etc.
I'm fairly sure guys that are sick of seeing ads for feminine hygeine products etc might be in for replacing their *existing* advertising with something for deals on beer, or superbowl tickets, or whatever happens to float their personalized boats.
The client authenticates itself to the Authentication Server (AS) which forwards the username to a Key Distribution Center (KDC). The KDC issues a Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT), which is time stamped, encrypts it using the user's password and returns the encrypted result to the user's workstation. If successful, this gives the user desktop access.
So where does the password used to encrypt the TGT come from?
I'd say that a high death-toll is pretty terrifying, but it's somewhat in relation to the chance of one (or one's relations/friends/etc) being potential victims of a future attack.
There's a combination of visibility and impact More people harmed = likely more of impact and visibility Harmed in a cruel/unusual way = Higher visibility (see the recent killings in France)
People die due to violence in big cities all the time. After reading about it in the news you become desensitized to reading about gang violence and bystander harm, etc if it's not in their neighbourhood. However, take a few higher-profile cases like the Canadian greyhound killer or the "bath-salts" attacks, the gruesomeness and randomness makes it a lot more frightening.
Same effect if a lot of people die at once, particularly in a violent/gruesome way.
Dying is scary to most people. A lot of people dying gets attention. Or to quote a similar way of thinking in Firefly:
Mal: [so only Jayne hears him] Now, you only gotta scare 'im. Jayne: Pain is scary.
Pain is scary. Death is (generally) scary. Lots of death is more scary. Lots of gruesome death is really scary, but it also increases the risk of retaliation or alienation of those that support the terrorists. The IRA wouldn't have gotten much support for targeting large amount of children, etc. Religious battles sometimes get away with this more because they play the "godless heathen" card, but even that doesn't work beyond a certain level (and note I say religious, as *MANY* religions have been involved in atrocities)
$350 a month in China isn't a particularly bad wage, its certainly not slave labor so maybe you could tone down the overblown rhetoric.
MengniuIQ84 wrote that the authorities had ordered the schools to send students to assist Foxconn but said that the factory neither informed parents nor signed agreements with students
Seems pretty f'ing close to me. If I'm going to college/Uni and suddenly get shipped off to work in a factory - having my education delayed - against my wishes seems slave'ish even if I get paid.
But it depends on the books. Almost anything physically available at my local B&M Chapters/Indigo/etc is at least the same price on Amazon for an eBook. Often more. The big publishers seem intent on charging more for eBooks than the physical copies, even though it should cost substantially less.
End result: other than a few favorite authors/series I'm finishing off, I've purchased a lot less of those books.
What I did find is a TON of books by author's I'd never heard of. Often they're not books I'd see at my local B&M, but I've bought over 50 books since last April. Average price is around $5 or less. Some authors are really smart and sell the first book in a series for $1-3, and the later ones for $5+. Still more reasonable than the bookstore, but it seems more fair to both the readers and the authors.
Price in eBooks should reflect a few things: a) The distribution model is cheaper: once you've got the first copy out making additional copies is a few pennies more b) Selling further books is easier. You finish book 1 in a series, and most ebook readers will "recommend" the next one c) There isn't a resale market for ebooks. This is lost value for the purchaser, but may result in more "new" sales for the publisher and writer etc
Would that work for Network logins? If you've got mapped drives, I'd imagine that the server is going to need more than a "yup, this is Bob all-right" from the client machine. If the user hasn't typed his/her password in at login, then how would it get to the remote server without being stored somewhere? And without an authenticating master password, I don't see a way to safely store secure data. There may be an obscure alghorythm or something of the sort to mash it up, but eventually it needs to be decryptable, which - without human intervention - means hard-coded methods of doing so which are subject to discovery and abuse. Similar issues arise in Linux-land if you have an encrypted password keystore and auto-login. You need to either login to the keystore, or re-enter your wifi password to connect to an AP, or have the AP password saved in a way that is plaintext or encrypted in a way that could be duplicated.
No-one will be forced to comply, the department said.
So if the actual perp were one of the men asked to provide evidence, then he need only say no, and meanwhile 8000 others have to submit to DNA testing.
Now if you did that with an electronic device, it might be prior art. But there are plenty of things that a human can do that aren't intuitive/obvious with a computer.
That being said, even on an "electronic device" it seems that prior art has been around for quite awhile.
My Asus laptop has a "face unlock" feature, and it was purchased in earlier 2011 (patent is September 28, 2011). I'm fairly sure such features existed on devices long before my laptop had it as well.
Summer is also a time when a lot of the renovations/work on the schools themselves get done. Just because the teachers aren't in doesn't mean the maintenance people aren't.
It creeps back in with the next release, of course, but then I just have to kill it again. Only loss is the volume widget in gnome and the ability to send to multiple outputs.
However, WINE and many others work a lot better afterwards with just plain ALSA (and at some point, mixing multiple inputs started to work just fine as well).
Which is amusing. If Apple's biggest asset is design, and Samsung copied it... yet people such as yourself (and many others I know) don't care for Touchwiz and remove it.
Also, why did you need to root your phone? You might not be able to remove touchwiz entirely, but installing a different launcher allows you to change the default on a semi-permanent basis
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Question a: What does he normally eat
Question b: What did he eat at KFC (assuming chicken, it wouldn't be so far out from the regular diet that he wouldn't like it)
I know people from other countries that come here and find many desserts etc too sweet. They do like candy, etc, but the syropy stuff that people often love in N. America is way too much for them.
Try feeding that same dude a Big Mac with salty fries and a Shamrock Shake.
It's also a good reason why clauses blocking class-action are bad, and should be illegal.
People in these sort of situations generally CAN'T afford a lawyer to fight the abuse that IS happening. However they can form a class action. They might not get compensated financially, but they can punish the offending company and force them to clean up their act.
It seems to me something like this (actual units made up)
We have a contract to buy at least 2000 units of power.
We only used 1700 units.
Power company will charge us a fine greatly in excess of 300 units power. This gives financial incentive to needlessly use power.
The proper thing would be to change a MINIMUM of 2000 units power, not an excessive fine for under-utilization. The power company gets paid for the expected usage, and nobody has to waste power to save money.
Unfortunately, it seems that while what they did wasn't really reasonable, the alternative was also unreasonable..
However, beyond that, it appears that their power usage was down because they were running on diesel backup generators a lot of the time, apparently during maintenance etc.
So maybe the power company needs to clean up its billing (don't fine in excess of power not used), and MS needs to fix things so that maintenance doesn't spend a lot of time running polluting diesel generators.
I switched from AVG to MS Security Essentials. I've been fairly pleasantly surprised thus far.
Production moved to China because... it was cheaper
I believe this was also related to health regulations. In the USA there's a lot more employers need to do to ensure worker safety etc.
Unfortunately it's cheaper to just send the work to China than comply for many companies.
However, I don't believe this would preclude a contract-clause which prevents former employers from divulging proprietary information on the Google mapping application. If they start sharing code which belongs to Google or other such things then it's going to get messy.
Nah, you'll just get detained for extra questioning due to smiling too much.
but I have not heard one Catholic priest say that child abuse is right
What you say and what you do are two different things. If you decry violence against women, but beat your wife (or support people who beat their wives) behind the scenes, then you're either a thug, a hypocrite, or both.
No, they may not "say" that it's OK. But they knowingly covered it up many, many times, moving offenders around to abuse other children rather than having them face the law.
On the other hand, companies often allocate two 15-minute breaks which are intended for things like grabbing some air, or having a cig etc. These are fairly predicable and can be scheduled accordingly.
Using the can because the cafeteria's food gave you gastrointestinal distress, or because you have IBS, whatever is a bit of a different beast. It's a need that varies in schedule and duration, and shouldn't be grouped together with other breaks.
Where - to my understanding - it's a legal industry.
At least in the US it would have a bad rep because it's also an illegal profession, but in Germany red-light districts are regulated and legit.
I agree that storing the password is dumb, mainly because there's currently no really secure way to do so with authentication methods that don't require a strict set of authenticators (password, card, etc).
I wasn't saying that they should be storing the password, just that it seems impossed to use a non-password measure and then still use any other resources that might require a password-based component (such as domain logins).
Fingerprints are too "fuzzy" for use as a password, so you end up with something where "close enough" is good enough for login, but will not likely be good enough to replace the password itself (so you get dumb things like storing the password in the file, convenience instead of actual security)
I think it's more that nobody wants to be tracked all the time
There are times when I mind tracking, and times I don't.
If I were - for example - browsing "adult" sites, I'd probably not want to be tracked, particularly if said tracking manages to tie my browsing history between home and work, etc.
On the other hand, if advertisers want to use tracking to determine that I like geeky stuff and am shopping for a new gaming rig, I'm not going to complain if they show me ads for CPU's that are on sale etc.
I'm fairly sure guys that are sick of seeing ads for feminine hygeine products etc might be in for replacing their *existing* advertising with something for deals on beer, or superbowl tickets, or whatever happens to float their personalized boats.
The client authenticates itself to the Authentication Server (AS) which forwards the username to a Key Distribution Center (KDC). The KDC issues a Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT), which is time stamped, encrypts it using the user's password and returns the encrypted result to the user's workstation. If successful, this gives the user desktop access.
So where does the password used to encrypt the TGT come from?
I'd say that a high death-toll is pretty terrifying, but it's somewhat in relation to the chance of one (or one's relations/friends/etc) being potential victims of a future attack.
There's a combination of visibility and impact
More people harmed = likely more of impact and visibility
Harmed in a cruel/unusual way = Higher visibility (see the recent killings in France)
People die due to violence in big cities all the time. After reading about it in the news you become desensitized to reading about gang violence and bystander harm, etc if it's not in their neighbourhood. However, take a few higher-profile cases like the Canadian greyhound killer or the "bath-salts" attacks, the gruesomeness and randomness makes it a lot more frightening.
Same effect if a lot of people die at once, particularly in a violent/gruesome way.
Dying is scary to most people. A lot of people dying gets attention. Or to quote a similar way of thinking in Firefly:
Mal: [so only Jayne hears him] Now, you only gotta scare 'im.
Jayne: Pain is scary.
Pain is scary. Death is (generally) scary. Lots of death is more scary. Lots of gruesome death is really scary, but it also increases the risk of retaliation or alienation of those that support the terrorists. The IRA wouldn't have gotten much support for targeting large amount of children, etc. Religious battles sometimes get away with this more because they play the "godless heathen" card, but even that doesn't work beyond a certain level (and note I say religious, as *MANY* religions have been involved in atrocities)
$350 a month in China isn't a particularly bad wage, its certainly not slave labor so maybe you could tone down the overblown rhetoric.
MengniuIQ84 wrote that the authorities had ordered the schools to send students to assist Foxconn but said that the factory neither informed parents nor signed agreements with students
Seems pretty f'ing close to me. If I'm going to college/Uni and suddenly get shipped off to work in a factory - having my education delayed - against my wishes seems slave'ish even if I get paid.
But it depends on the books.
Almost anything physically available at my local B&M Chapters/Indigo/etc is at least the same price on Amazon for an eBook. Often more. The big publishers seem intent on charging more for eBooks than the physical copies, even though it should cost substantially less.
End result: other than a few favorite authors/series I'm finishing off, I've purchased a lot less of those books.
What I did find is a TON of books by author's I'd never heard of. Often they're not books I'd see at my local B&M, but I've bought over 50 books since last April. Average price is around $5 or less. Some authors are really smart and sell the first book in a series for $1-3, and the later ones for $5+. Still more reasonable than the bookstore, but it seems more fair to both the readers and the authors.
Price in eBooks should reflect a few things:
a) The distribution model is cheaper: once you've got the first copy out making additional copies is a few pennies more
b) Selling further books is easier. You finish book 1 in a series, and most ebook readers will "recommend" the next one
c) There isn't a resale market for ebooks. This is lost value for the purchaser, but may result in more "new" sales for the publisher and writer etc
Would that work for Network logins?
If you've got mapped drives, I'd imagine that the server is going to need more than a "yup, this is Bob all-right" from the client machine. If the user hasn't typed his/her password in at login, then how would it get to the remote server without being stored somewhere?
And without an authenticating master password, I don't see a way to safely store secure data. There may be an obscure alghorythm or something of the sort to mash it up, but eventually it needs to be decryptable, which - without human intervention - means hard-coded methods of doing so which are subject to discovery and abuse.
Similar issues arise in Linux-land if you have an encrypted password keystore and auto-login. You need to either login to the keystore, or re-enter your wifi password to connect to an AP, or have the AP password saved in a way that is plaintext or encrypted in a way that could be duplicated.
No-one will be forced to comply, the department said.
So if the actual perp were one of the men asked to provide evidence, then he need only say no, and meanwhile 8000 others have to submit to DNA testing.
Now if you did that with an electronic device, it might be prior art. But there are plenty of things that a human can do that aren't intuitive/obvious with a computer.
That being said, even on an "electronic device" it seems that prior art has been around for quite awhile.
My Asus laptop has a "face unlock" feature, and it was purchased in earlier 2011 (patent is September 28, 2011). I'm fairly sure such features existed on devices long before my laptop had it as well.
Summer is also a time when a lot of the renovations/work on the schools themselves get done. Just because the teachers aren't in doesn't mean the maintenance people aren't.
Ducting. Cabling. Carpentry. Parking lot resurfacing. Playground construction. Grass seeding. Computer/lab replacement+upgrades.
There's lots of stuff that gets done that's pretty hard to do in regular hours of a school year without causing some fairly major disruption.
That is, until I remove "pulseaudio"
It creeps back in with the next release, of course, but then I just have to kill it again.
Only loss is the volume widget in gnome and the ability to send to multiple outputs.
However, WINE and many others work a lot better afterwards with just plain ALSA (and at some point, mixing multiple inputs started to work just fine as well).
Despite this, by and large, men strive for achievement more than women (as a group)
How much of this is to acquire the optimal mate though? Fast car, big wallet, etc. Who are you trying to impress?
I rooted them both to remove it
Which is amusing. If Apple's biggest asset is design, and Samsung copied it... yet people such as yourself (and many others I know) don't care for Touchwiz and remove it.
Also, why did you need to root your phone? You might not be able to remove touchwiz entirely, but installing a different launcher allows you to change the default on a semi-permanent basis
If you spend your formative years watching Adult Swim and eating funyuns all day, you're probably going to have a pretty low IQ.
If that's all you do all day, I'd say that it already says something about your intelligence/motivation in life.