No. If they included DVD playback as an optional/free addon, no big deal. Starting a trend of paying for common features which have previously been included, and charging for a "premium" OS sets a nasty precedent and will likely leave a bad taste in the mouths of many.
So one guy got smart. He started mentioning how old our version of office was etc. The techies followed with the same mutterings. After that circulated around, it was announced that we were going to bring in a newer version of Office (nobody said MS Office). By making it sound like an update/upgrade, rather than a newer version, acceptance was greater and everyone actually seemed to like it.
Let's not forget the troops. You know, the guys that are used to godforsaken conditions, are well-trained in the use of explosive, firearms, and various other such things, and will probably be coming home sometime in the not-too-far-future... possibly with PTSD.
Actually this is a perfectly valid password if you're testing something compared to an average, non-technical person It may even be a better password than a common user has... as people often use the name of their firstborn or some stupid crap like that.
Most secure systems I know of will (temporarily) lock an account after a successive number of incorrect login accounts. So assuming his password might be something similar to igotmilk (ok, that's at least 8 chars)... well
If it's a weak password, then either it shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, or the service should have good anti brute-force measures.
Hotmail's not the worse culprit. Many banks I know have password restrictions that you can't even enter special characters if you want to, and passwords must be 8 chars or less.
What it also does is allow them to do such things between their services for you. When services are integrated that's useful to the customer.
However, it also seems a bit "blanket" and allows them to do a whole lot more, much of which may be against what the customer (in this case, I'll refer to the person using the service as "customer") wants.
Perhaps they need an addendum like:
For the purposes of presenting you or those your have specifically authorized to use and view the content through our services.
Of course, the actual addendum would be more legalese... but it should be restricted to basically "we're allowed to do X in order to provide YOU and those YOU CHOOSE services"
Yeah. Unless it's changed, I remember it asking me whether I would allow it to do so.
That sort of things seems fairly safe to share, and useful as it'll give game devs an idea of what the average system used by gamers is and help them optimize. No worse than debian's "package popularity-content" etc
So list your book for $2.99 instead of $1-2 For a book, that's still well within "impulse-buy" range for many people. In fact, since I bought a kindle, I've found tons of books for under $5 (usually $2.99/$3.99), and that's well within impulse territory for me. A couple of them have been not great (not bad, but not great), and some have been excellent. For the books-in-series, I expected that the $3-4 book would have been cheap with the latter books in the series being the usual $9-10, but some authors publish their whole series at around the $4/book range. When I've read one good book by the author, I don't even blink before dropping what's less than the cost of a latte on others by the same author.
So, assuming entanglement across time, what's the limit. In this case, we're talking billionths of seconds. Could it be done in seconds? Hours? Years?
If you observe the expected result with enough time before the action, can you alter the action?
Give a few seconds (or less) of lead-time and a reliable source and either you're going to have some *very* rich scientists or the high-frequency-trade based stock market will be gone rather quickly.
How combustible is high-pressure methane VS something like propane? Most "natural gas" contains a fairly significant chunk of methane and is often piped for home furnaces, stoves, heaters, etc. So with all this methane, why not find a way to capture, compress, and use it. Seems that this algae is essentially doing what may of the biogas projects are intended for anyways.
As a place to put your money that's safer than in your mattress? Probably As somebody to manage the financial system (including investments, etc) in an honest manner that's in the best interest of the average person? Probably not
Just as then, Jews are now increasingly being blamed for all the ills caused by the political leaders of their own political parties & nations
Mel Gibson? Anyone who goes down that road quickly gets (rightfully) lambasted by the media. Now if you wanted to talk about Arabs instead of Jews, you might have a point about increased persecution and segregation.
No leader is going to make an amendment to abolish the limit. The closest that may come in the future is some suspension of the 2-term limit under a war-act. Given that the current hostilities are ramping down near term-end, I'd say that the chance of that any time soon is 0.0001%
That doesn't mean he'll quite politics though. Just that he won't be sitting in the same chair.
No, it's not a dictatorship. But that that doesn't mean that the "style" of government isn't sometimes dictatorial. The problem is that the dictator these days isn't the politicians, it's the corporations that control the politicians. They've become increasingly bold these days. Bold enough to basically stand up and say how "disappointed" they are that the politicians they've been lobbying didn't bow to their draconian wishes.
No, the government isn't quite the same as that in dictatorships in other countries. The treatment of the citizens is definitely going down that route, though.
Yes, but how about a matching love-seat, end-table, or coffee table?
Last time I replaced my couch, the coffee-table had to go (new couch was a recliner, but the leg-rest and coffee table had to compete on the same space). If I'd been given an ad for a good end-table or shorter coffee-table, it might have been a sale.
That's for video's specifically targeted at sharing the "infringing" content.
But they also take issue with people uploading their own videos/w copyrighted soundtracks, and how about if I upload a video of myself singing "Song X" (I'm not sure if this is considered "fair use", though it may considered "cruel and unusual punishment" given my singing ability).
Physically, it seems that there are some parallels between breaking+entering and theft. Similar to your file-cabinet example, if Bob the janitor has a key to the office for cleaning purposes, but uses it to rifle through the boss's drawers and steal stuff, then it's theft, but not B&E. If Bob doesn't have key to an office or secure area, but he picks the lock then steals stuff, it's B&E+theft.
In this case, nobody broke in. Bob had a computer account with legitimate access which he logged in with, so there's no B&E (hacking). Theft of trade secrets, industrial espionage, or other such things may apply though.
My music isn't in the cloud, but I can copy it to my phone as a straight drive-letter from the PC. It also has a web-based app you can manage from a PC (enable on your phone and you can http/https to a built-in webpage), or you can download songs directly on the phone etc using various apps.
I suppose I went OT by commenting more on the book than the article. I wasn't expected this therapy to be like a real droud. That said, I'd imagine that while this particular treatment might not do it, something similar might work quite well. Electrical regulation of the brain area that produces dopamine etc should be possible, thought maybe not just yet.
From the description of wireheads (droud addicts) in various Niven books, most of them were already depressed before seeking out the Droud. It was also mentioned as a solution with less "pushers" than drugs, as a wirehead only needed a one-time install and some batteries or occasional basic maintenance afterwards.
... in the sun. A little bit of extra vitamin D and a bright sunny day can do wonders.
Also: pet-shops, especially the ones that let you touch the animals (e.g. Petland). Being able to hold and rub a warm fuzzy animal is very cathartic. Bunnies are particular nice as they fill the warm & fuzzy quota while generally being quite and not bitey. I must warn that doing so does tend to lead to one becoming a pet-owner, but then you've got your own warm & fuzzy at home. If it comes to fuzzy-pet-ownership, again I recommend dwarf bunnies, as they're not overly high maintenance. females tend to smell better than males (males get musky when feeling "frisky", and may you may find them in amorous encounters with you fuzzy slippers or anything else fuzzy and roughly the same size as a bunny).
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No. If they included DVD playback as an optional/free addon, no big deal. Starting a trend of paying for common features which have previously been included, and charging for a "premium" OS sets a nasty precedent and will likely leave a bad taste in the mouths of many.
I know somewhere that had similar issues.
So one guy got smart. He started mentioning how old our version of office was etc. The techies followed with the same mutterings.
After that circulated around, it was announced that we were going to bring in a newer version of Office (nobody said MS Office). By making it sound like an update/upgrade, rather than a newer version, acceptance was greater and everyone actually seemed to like it.
Let's not forget the troops. You know, the guys that are used to godforsaken conditions, are well-trained in the use of explosive, firearms, and various other such things, and will probably be coming home sometime in the not-too-far-future... possibly with PTSD.
Yeah, you probably don't want to piss them off.
Actually this is a perfectly valid password if you're testing something compared to an average, non-technical person
It may even be a better password than a common user has... as people often use the name of their firstborn or some stupid crap like that.
Most secure systems I know of will (temporarily) lock an account after a successive number of incorrect login accounts. So assuming his password might be something similar to igotmilk (ok, that's at least 8 chars)... well
If it's a weak password, then either it shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, or the service should have good anti brute-force measures.
Hotmail's not the worse culprit. Many banks I know have password restrictions that you can't even enter special characters if you want to, and passwords must be 8 chars or less.
What it also does is allow them to do such things between their services for you. When services are integrated that's useful to the customer.
However, it also seems a bit "blanket" and allows them to do a whole lot more, much of which may be against what the customer (in this case, I'll refer to the person using the service as "customer") wants.
Perhaps they need an addendum like:
For the purposes of presenting you or those your have specifically authorized to use and view the content through our services.
Of course, the actual addendum would be more legalese... but it should be restricted to basically "we're allowed to do X in order to provide YOU and those YOU CHOOSE services"
Yeah. Unless it's changed, I remember it asking me whether I would allow it to do so.
That sort of things seems fairly safe to share, and useful as it'll give game devs an idea of what the average system used by gamers is and help them optimize.
No worse than debian's "package popularity-content" etc
So list your book for $2.99 instead of $1-2
For a book, that's still well within "impulse-buy" range for many people.
In fact, since I bought a kindle, I've found tons of books for under $5 (usually $2.99/$3.99), and that's well within impulse territory for me. A couple of them have been not great (not bad, but not great), and some have been excellent.
For the books-in-series, I expected that the $3-4 book would have been cheap with the latter books in the series being the usual $9-10, but some authors publish their whole series at around the $4/book range. When I've read one good book by the author, I don't even blink before dropping what's less than the cost of a latte on others by the same author.
In my experience, the windows Steam doesn't do that. Why would the linux version?
So, assuming entanglement across time, what's the limit. In this case, we're talking billionths of seconds.
Could it be done in seconds? Hours? Years?
If you observe the expected result with enough time before the action, can you alter the action?
Give a few seconds (or less) of lead-time and a reliable source and either you're going to have some *very* rich scientists or the high-frequency-trade based stock market will be gone rather quickly.
How combustible is high-pressure methane VS something like propane?
Most "natural gas" contains a fairly significant chunk of methane and is often piped for home furnaces, stoves, heaters, etc.
So with all this methane, why not find a way to capture, compress, and use it. Seems that this algae is essentially doing what may of the biogas projects are intended for anyways.
As a place to put your money that's safer than in your mattress? Probably
As somebody to manage the financial system (including investments, etc) in an honest manner that's in the best interest of the average person? Probably not
Just as then, Jews are now increasingly being blamed for all the ills caused by the political leaders of their own political parties & nations
Mel Gibson? Anyone who goes down that road quickly gets (rightfully) lambasted by the media. Now if you wanted to talk about Arabs instead of Jews, you might have a point about increased persecution and segregation.
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No leader is going to make an amendment to abolish the limit. The closest that may come in the future is some suspension of the 2-term limit under a war-act. Given that the current hostilities are ramping down near term-end, I'd say that the chance of that any time soon is 0.0001%
That doesn't mean he'll quite politics though. Just that he won't be sitting in the same chair.
No, it's not a dictatorship. But that that doesn't mean that the "style" of government isn't sometimes dictatorial. The problem is that the dictator these days isn't the politicians, it's the corporations that control the politicians. They've become increasingly bold these days. Bold enough to basically stand up and say how "disappointed" they are that the politicians they've been lobbying didn't bow to their draconian wishes.
No, the government isn't quite the same as that in dictatorships in other countries. The treatment of the citizens is definitely going down that route, though.
I'm going to go way out on a limb and predict that he will leave office either in January of 2013 or 2017
Uhh. Given the two-term limit, I'd say that's a fairly safe bet...
Yes, but how about a matching love-seat, end-table, or coffee table?
Last time I replaced my couch, the coffee-table had to go (new couch was a recliner, but the leg-rest and coffee table had to compete on the same space).
If I'd been given an ad for a good end-table or shorter coffee-table, it might have been a sale.
That's for video's specifically targeted at sharing the "infringing" content.
But they also take issue with people uploading their own videos /w copyrighted soundtracks, and how about if I upload a video of myself singing "Song X" (I'm not sure if this is considered "fair use", though it may considered "cruel and unusual punishment" given my singing ability).
Physically, it seems that there are some parallels between breaking+entering and theft.
Similar to your file-cabinet example, if Bob the janitor has a key to the office for cleaning purposes, but uses it to rifle through the boss's drawers and steal stuff, then it's theft, but not B&E.
If Bob doesn't have key to an office or secure area, but he picks the lock then steals stuff, it's B&E+theft.
In this case, nobody broke in. Bob had a computer account with legitimate access which he logged in with, so there's no B&E (hacking).
Theft of trade secrets, industrial espionage, or other such things may apply though.
Where's the Space Quest kickstarter/site? I see it mentioned in a few places but haven't seen anything official?
I suppose a really (really really really) fine line here may be between using "Java" and using the "Java Language" (or Java syntax, whatever).
I could see that being a big part of what may get Google in the end. One little word... ouch.
My music isn't in the cloud, but I can copy it to my phone as a straight drive-letter from the PC.
It also has a web-based app you can manage from a PC (enable on your phone and you can http/https to a built-in webpage), or you can download songs directly on the phone etc using various apps.
I suppose I went OT by commenting more on the book than the article. I wasn't expected this therapy to be like a real droud.
That said, I'd imagine that while this particular treatment might not do it, something similar might work quite well. Electrical regulation of the brain area that produces dopamine etc should be possible, thought maybe not just yet.
Maybe for an "upper level" filter, it should scan for the use of the word "muppets" in emails...
easy != unnecessary
A lot of jobs qualify as "easy until a point" (that point being when the sh** hits the fan)
From the description of wireheads (droud addicts) in various Niven books, most of them were already depressed before seeking out the Droud. It was also mentioned as a solution with less "pushers" than drugs, as a wirehead only needed a one-time install and some batteries or occasional basic maintenance afterwards.
... in the sun. A little bit of extra vitamin D and a bright sunny day can do wonders.
Also: pet-shops, especially the ones that let you touch the animals (e.g. Petland). Being able to hold and rub a warm fuzzy animal is very cathartic. Bunnies are particular nice as they fill the warm & fuzzy quota while generally being quite and not bitey. I must warn that doing so does tend to lead to one becoming a pet-owner, but then you've got your own warm & fuzzy at home. If it comes to fuzzy-pet-ownership, again I recommend dwarf bunnies, as they're not overly high maintenance. females tend to smell better than males (males get musky when feeling "frisky", and may you may find them in amorous encounters with you fuzzy slippers or anything else fuzzy and roughly the same size as a bunny).