Basically we have "news" of a product by SmartDisplayer, that they have been producing for the last 7 years, already implemented by some 30 banks, used by Visa in some markets, which I have been using with the in-house TOATH authentication systems for the last four years. So where's the news? Slow news day?
This is all a load of crock. It's not as if US is controlling the Internet today. If they were, then there would be no great firewall of China, no filtering of tweets in India and probably no net neutrality. Also, what is "US" that controls the Internet according to this - the government or the military or the people or what? Because I did not see any changes in the Internet when the US government changed. The packets didn't start flowing in different ways just because there was a new guy in the Oval Office.
Today the Internet is "controled" (and I use this word loosely) by technocrats and bureaucrats and civil servants. If tomorrow UN/ITU took "control" of the Internet NOTHING would change, as it would continue to be controlled by another group of technocrats and bureaucrats and civil servants. And one thing they are good at is maintaining the status quo.
With all these dictators as USians see them, "controlling" the UN, what of your rights was ever trampled in the 67 years of existance of UN? What ideology was rammed down people's throats? Now how do you think that those pesky russkies or chineeze will stop YOU from talking about things they don't like? By passing a UN resolution? First they don't have enough votes on their side, second the UN resolutions are sooooo well respected by everyone.
If the "control" was passed tomorrow from ICAAN to ITU, a couple of feel-good resolutions would be passed in the vein of "everyone should have the access to the Internet", some more non-latin cTLDs would be created (like you care for the ones that exist already), and NOTHING ELSE WOULD CHANGE. The China would still operate the great firewall withing their cyber-borders, Australia would still pass the laws requiering the ISPs there to filter traffic for terrorists, criminals and IP violators, and US would still discuss the SOPAs, PIPAs, ACTAs and Net Neutrality laws. Unless they create the Internet police with their blue berets that US can send to China to arrest people torrenting the latest films and vice versa that China can send to US for discussing Tiananmen. Don't be silly.
Longitude can be expressed using gradians quite well (with 400 grads per full circle). Then it works out to one centigrad of arc on the equator equaling one kilometer.
In fact, during the aborted trial of decimal time right after the french revolution there were almanacs published with exactly that system - grads, decimal time and kilometers. And guess what, the same formulas for spherical trigonometry work out exactly the same as they do with the usual system of degrees, H/M/S and nautical miles.
Not only can you get the latest Safari 3 (3.2.3) to run on Tiger and it's only a year old, you can get the latest and greatest Safari 4.0.5 on Tiger.
Links:
Safari 4.0.5 Safari 3.2.3 for Tiger
Luxembourg has a hugely convenient institution of pursuits office. Same with Switzerland, but I don't know about the other countries. It comes down to the principle of trust between parties, with the state carrying a big stick if that trust is breached. In both countries I was able to spend huge sums of money with deferred payments (like 10-30 days after the delivery of the product or the service) based on the trust by the seller that I will make the payment (or that my life and credit would be completely ruined to kingdom come if I did not and that they would still get the money).
Nigel Tufnel: In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...
Sure does work for negative degrees. Or are you implying that anti-logarithm is defined for complex values whereas the logarithm is not defined for negative values?
Where I come from ln(-1) = i*pi, since e^(i*pi) = -1.
We could argue that it would work for 0 as well if we accept that ln(0) = -inf, and that e^-inf = 0.
Evasion of Swiss taxes is illegal in Switzerland, but not evasion of foreign taxes. And that is all well with me. The countries that cry foul should go after their own citizens, based on the books in their coutries (there has to be a trace that the money is paid) and not rely on other governments to do the work for them. How deep should the bank go while checking if the taxes have been paid?
Switzerland goes so far as to collect the taxes for USA and EU on further profits on the money in the banks (taxes calculated on the interest rate gains), I don't think that any other "tax haven" goes that far. The banks just don't ask if the foreign taxes have been applied to the money coming in. Does it stink?
And Swiss are profiting from these accounts - the Swiss taxes are applied to profits made by the banks while re-investing the money.
So the only ones losing are the foreign governments that have all the right to go after their citizens' money, but that doesn't give them any special rights in my bank.
[disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland, have an account in a Swiss bank, and while living and working in Switzerland I think it stupid to pay taxes to any other country]
Complicated question, as well. More Orthodox churches follow the new style calendar (only Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Serbian Orthodox Church, and the Georgian Orthodox Church are Old calendarsts), but given the size of the respective flocks, I would say that the majority of the Orthodox believers will celebrate their Christmas 13 days after the rest of the world (even just based on the size of the Russian Orthodox Church).
To be more precise, there are millions of Christians that are not celebrating Easter today, but will be celebrating it on 14th of April, in Julian calendar. Because, you see, the Eastern Orthodoxy is still keeping the dates based on the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar.
To make matters more complicated, there is also a smaller denomination of Eastern Orthodox Christians (New calendarists) that will be celebrating the Easter on 27th of April, in revised Julian calendar. That is because no Eastern Orthodox church uses the Gregorian calendar. And also because all Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the Easter on the same day if not on the same date.
Sorry to nitpick, but irks me when people mix-and-match the calendars. Point in question - we all celebrate the Christmas on the same date, 25th of December, only in Julian calendar that date happens to be (in these years) on 6th January in both revised Julian and in Gregorian calenders.
It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Robert Anderson, program writer for a respectable Movie association. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
Furthermore WiFi, Bluetooth, RC, RFID etc. are in the part of the spectrum that is not "unlicensed" on a world wide scale, as the summary would like us to believe - this part of the spectrum is just reserved for "other" purposes, meaning that the goverments will not decide to use the spectrum to issue other "licensed" services. Basically a bunch of governments has decided to wall-off part of the spectrum (which is of course a scarse natural resource belonging to a particular country) and not use it for TV, RADARs, communication, etc. allowing the development of devices using this part of the spectrum.
In no way does the deal preclude the governments to tax the users of these frequencies, either per-device, per-user or per-minute.
"Security vulnerabilities" is not due to the isolation of the host and guest OS (that's a good thing for the client), but due to the fact that you could more easily debug a virtualized OS to the point where you can take a peek at their DRM implementation (that is bad for them, client couldn't care less).
What's good for you is not always good for Micro Soft. And what's bad for Micro Soft is not always bad for you.
I've seen plenty of places selling licenses to run Windows, and the Windows installation media. But never have I seen Windows for sale.
In the world I live in, you buy license to run software, and are bound to (some - based on your jurisdiction) the terms of the license. You don't like Windows EULA? Buy a Mac. Don't like their license? Agree to GPL conditions. Think GPL is viral? Use BSD software...
Just buying the Vista DVD at Best Buy doesn't entitle you do whatever you want with it.
If it's the standard USB Missile Launcher, have you tried the USB Missile Launcher NZ. It should work with USB Missile Launcher and the DreamCheeky Rocket Launcher.
Somewhere around 4% of the population Are sociopaths or psychopaths, on average, so if you fuck over around 150 people, there will be on average something like 6 of them who would quite happily take revenge literally without any consideration of the consequences and without conscience.
Unfortunately, the situation is much worse for him than 6 psychos. In fact there is now an open season on Jason. With 150 guys with a motive to harm him, there are also other 10'000 male psychopaths of Seattle (4%). They don't have the motive, but they don't need it (they are psychopaths). What they have is the list of 150 other people that will be prime suspects before anyone even thinks of widening the scope of the suspects.
I really hope that no one bent on killing picks this up.
I don't want to sound like I come from that Monty Python sketch, but that is nothing.
Long time ago we had to transfer some sensitive data between two military bases. The data was saved to a floppy (8" floppy at that), put in sealed envelope, in the locked suitcase chained to the carriers wrist, into APC, to the airport, helicopter, APC, and straight to us. The whole nine yards.
And then we found that the caporal on the other end found it bizzare that there was something shuffling in the envelope, and to secure it better he put a couple of staples through the envelope. And through the disk.
Since the data was both sensitive and urgent (no time for the whole nine yards again), we ended by transferring it using modem over unsecured phone carrier.
It is funny when you look at the "photos" on the official site and you notice (when you click the image) that the keyboard used on the mock-up has a Windows key.
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Basically we have "news" of a product by SmartDisplayer, that they have been producing for the last 7 years, already implemented by some 30 banks, used by Visa in some markets, which I have been using with the in-house TOATH authentication systems for the last four years. So where's the news? Slow news day?
And in related news billions of flies around the world prefer shit to honey, but I don't take their preference as a nutritional suggestion.
This is all a load of crock. It's not as if US is controlling the Internet today. If they were, then there would be no great firewall of China, no filtering of tweets in India and probably no net neutrality. Also, what is "US" that controls the Internet according to this - the government or the military or the people or what? Because I did not see any changes in the Internet when the US government changed. The packets didn't start flowing in different ways just because there was a new guy in the Oval Office.
Today the Internet is "controled" (and I use this word loosely) by technocrats and bureaucrats and civil servants. If tomorrow UN/ITU took "control" of the Internet NOTHING would change, as it would continue to be controlled by another group of technocrats and bureaucrats and civil servants. And one thing they are good at is maintaining the status quo.
With all these dictators as USians see them, "controlling" the UN, what of your rights was ever trampled in the 67 years of existance of UN? What ideology was rammed down people's throats? Now how do you think that those pesky russkies or chineeze will stop YOU from talking about things they don't like? By passing a UN resolution? First they don't have enough votes on their side, second the UN resolutions are sooooo well respected by everyone.
If the "control" was passed tomorrow from ICAAN to ITU, a couple of feel-good resolutions would be passed in the vein of "everyone should have the access to the Internet", some more non-latin cTLDs would be created (like you care for the ones that exist already), and NOTHING ELSE WOULD CHANGE. The China would still operate the great firewall withing their cyber-borders, Australia would still pass the laws requiering the ISPs there to filter traffic for terrorists, criminals and IP violators, and US would still discuss the SOPAs, PIPAs, ACTAs and Net Neutrality laws. Unless they create the Internet police with their blue berets that US can send to China to arrest people torrenting the latest films and vice versa that China can send to US for discussing Tiananmen. Don't be silly.
Longitude can be expressed using gradians quite well (with 400 grads per full circle). Then it works out to one centigrad of arc on the equator equaling one kilometer.
In fact, during the aborted trial of decimal time right after the french revolution there were almanacs published with exactly that system - grads, decimal time and kilometers. And guess what, the same formulas for spherical trigonometry work out exactly the same as they do with the usual system of degrees, H/M/S and nautical miles.
What happens if Sony goes under?
I believe that the sight of Sony going down would be worth the paltry sum of a couple of e-books.
Not only can you get the latest Safari 3 (3.2.3) to run on Tiger and it's only a year old, you can get the latest and greatest Safari 4.0.5 on Tiger.
Links:
Safari 4.0.5
Safari 3.2.3 for Tiger
Luxembourg has a hugely convenient institution of pursuits office. Same with Switzerland, but I don't know about the other countries. It comes down to the principle of trust between parties, with the state carrying a big stick if that trust is breached. In both countries I was able to spend huge sums of money with deferred payments (like 10-30 days after the delivery of the product or the service) based on the trust by the seller that I will make the payment (or that my life and credit would be completely ruined to kingdom come if I did not and that they would still get the money).
Nigel Tufnel: In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...
At this moment they still have not confirmed the 47th Mersenne prime in Alpha: 47th Mersenne prime
Further more, the 41st-46th primes are listed as conjectured.
If we consider the 40th Mersenne prime, 2^20996011-1 it gives the same result when checking its primeness (times out).
Sure does work for negative degrees. Or are you implying that anti-logarithm is defined for complex values whereas the logarithm is not defined for negative values?
Where I come from ln(-1) = i*pi, since e^(i*pi) = -1.
We could argue that it would work for 0 as well if we accept that ln(0) = -inf, and that e^-inf = 0.
Before anyone asks, 135 miles per gallon is 2 721 600 rods per hogshead.
And that's the way I likes it!
Evasion of Swiss taxes is illegal in Switzerland, but not evasion of foreign taxes. And that is all well with me. The countries that cry foul should go after their own citizens, based on the books in their coutries (there has to be a trace that the money is paid) and not rely on other governments to do the work for them. How deep should the bank go while checking if the taxes have been paid?
Switzerland goes so far as to collect the taxes for USA and EU on further profits on the money in the banks (taxes calculated on the interest rate gains), I don't think that any other "tax haven" goes that far. The banks just don't ask if the foreign taxes have been applied to the money coming in. Does it stink?
And Swiss are profiting from these accounts - the Swiss taxes are applied to profits made by the banks while re-investing the money.
So the only ones losing are the foreign governments that have all the right to go after their citizens' money, but that doesn't give them any special rights in my bank.
[disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland, have an account in a Swiss bank, and while living and working in Switzerland I think it stupid to pay taxes to any other country]
Complicated question, as well. More Orthodox churches follow the new style calendar (only Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Serbian Orthodox Church, and the Georgian Orthodox Church are Old calendarsts), but given the size of the respective flocks, I would say that the majority of the Orthodox believers will celebrate their Christmas 13 days after the rest of the world (even just based on the size of the Russian Orthodox Church).
To make matters more complicated, there is also a smaller denomination of Eastern Orthodox Christians (New calendarists) that will be celebrating the Easter on 27th of April, in revised Julian calendar. That is because no Eastern Orthodox church uses the Gregorian calendar. And also because all Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the Easter on the same day if not on the same date.
Sorry to nitpick, but irks me when people mix-and-match the calendars. Point in question - we all celebrate the Christmas on the same date, 25th of December, only in Julian calendar that date happens to be (in these years) on 6th January in both revised Julian and in Gregorian calenders.
It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Robert Anderson, program writer for a respectable Movie association. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
It was a great feat back then and it is a great feat today.
Kudos to japanese space team!
Exactly!
Furthermore WiFi, Bluetooth, RC, RFID etc. are in the part of the spectrum that is not "unlicensed" on a world wide scale, as the summary would like us to believe - this part of the spectrum is just reserved for "other" purposes, meaning that the goverments will not decide to use the spectrum to issue other "licensed" services. Basically a bunch of governments has decided to wall-off part of the spectrum (which is of course a scarse natural resource belonging to a particular country) and not use it for TV, RADARs, communication, etc. allowing the development of devices using this part of the spectrum.
In no way does the deal preclude the governments to tax the users of these frequencies, either per-device, per-user or per-minute.
The result will, of course, be the sweet crude oil.
Thank you, thank you... Don't forget to tip the waiters...
"Security vulnerabilities" is not due to the isolation of the host and guest OS (that's a good thing for the client), but due to the fact that you could more easily debug a virtualized OS to the point where you can take a peek at their DRM implementation (that is bad for them, client couldn't care less).
What's good for you is not always good for Micro Soft. And what's bad for Micro Soft is not always bad for you.
Please tell me where I could buy Windows.
I've seen plenty of places selling licenses to run Windows, and the Windows installation media. But never have I seen Windows for sale.
In the world I live in, you buy license to run software, and are bound to (some - based on your jurisdiction) the terms of the license. You don't like Windows EULA? Buy a Mac. Don't like their license? Agree to GPL conditions. Think GPL is viral? Use BSD software...
Just buying the Vista DVD at Best Buy doesn't entitle you do whatever you want with it.
If it's the standard USB Missile Launcher, have you tried the USB Missile Launcher NZ. It should work with USB Missile Launcher and the DreamCheeky Rocket Launcher.
You are welcome!
Bzzzzzt!
Spain was not member of NATO in '66. Spain only joined NATO after democratization in '82.
It's like people that think that Hawaii was part of US in time of Pearl Harbor.
I really hope that no one bent on killing picks this up.
I don't want to sound like I come from that Monty Python sketch, but that is nothing.
Long time ago we had to transfer some sensitive data between two military bases. The data was saved to a floppy (8" floppy at that), put in sealed envelope, in the locked suitcase chained to the carriers wrist, into APC, to the airport, helicopter, APC, and straight to us. The whole nine yards.
And then we found that the caporal on the other end found it bizzare that there was something shuffling in the envelope, and to secure it better he put a couple of staples through the envelope. And through the disk.
Since the data was both sensitive and urgent (no time for the whole nine yards again), we ended by transferring it using modem over unsecured phone carrier.
It is funny when you look at the "photos" on the official site and you notice (when you click the image) that the keyboard used on the mock-up has a Windows key.