Professional Baseball (and other sports) are meant to be a pasttime for the masses. Many many teams these days are getting huge subsidies for new stadiums from the local taxbase, and as such the majority of the taxbase (middle-class) want to be able to afford to go to the games. It defies reason that a person would want someone to take their money to build a major sporting venue knowing that they'll never be able to afford to go to it.
A lot of car dealerships sort of work like this, ie 'we show you the factory invoice'. OK, so that shows you how much they paid for the car. However, when a consumer buys an item and gets a rebate, it doesn't show up on the invoice, right? There probably exist a similiar situation on their end: The dealership can get all sort of rebates and allowances that won't show up on their 'factory invoice'.
Nothing is more annoying then getting a 11pm page, only to find that you'll have to spend 30 minutes driving to work to make a 5 minute fix to a system, then drive home again, when all you really wanted to do was fire up the VPN and do it from home.
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There was a SciFi book about this. Far side of moon, etc... everything was fine until someone launched a rather large mirror that allowed the beam to be bounced back to earth.
I think there is some sort of physical contact to do that though; either a quickly deployed road strip (sort of like a spike strip but with electrical contacts that brush up) or a rocket-powered minicar that runs under the vehicle.
IANAS, but few reflective surfaces are 100% reflective (if any), so some energy will be absorbed, which will marr the surface, causing more energy to be absorbed, etc. It may help a little, but not much.
But they aren't going to give up 'cash' to install a couple of thousand copies of Windows on these school machines. It'll just be the ammount they decide to 'charge for it that they claim they 'lost'.
What happens when every police station / prison meeting room has a sign "this room may be monitored". The problem with surveilance is that it tends to expand, then the protocols for implementing it become grey (as in the sign in my complex's laundry room that states that there is a security camera, and there isn't) until everyone *says* they are monitoring, even if they aren't.
How many cars have a sticker on them for some no-name security product, when the product is just the sticker?
If you are watching a recording, then you aren't watching a new broadcast -- which means they don't have eyeballs on the ads they are broadcasting, meaning their revenue goes down. Sort of like web banners and cacheing proxies -- lots of places make their banner ads uncacheable so that they can record each and every impression.
A great strategy based game is Empire. Turn based, some games go on for three months (production only happens once a day). There are also one-day 'blitz' games. Text mode, very intricate.
Uptimes.net sort of did this; their client would keep the database updated and indicated the type of system it is running on. Unfortunately the project got canned since too many firewall products complained about the outbound connections made by the client.
Although there may not be anything now, it seems like there could be a market for a site that, at a users request, slurp a page (and images, if so desired),tarball it, GPG sign in, and send it to you. Since they are a impartial third party the date of the signature would be pretty solid as would the contents of the slurp. One could even have it act like Stamper which will sign anything sent to it over email, and post the signature to USENET (not the contents) to help bolster it's timestamp.
I think most late-model modems will translate the letters to numbers for youe, IE ABC=2,DEF=3, on the idea that people are typeing out 1-800-MYISP etc etc.
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Professional Baseball (and other sports) are meant to be a pasttime for the masses. Many many teams these days are getting huge subsidies for new stadiums from the local taxbase, and as such the majority of the taxbase (middle-class) want to be able to afford to go to the games. It defies reason that a person would want someone to take their money to build a major sporting venue knowing that they'll never be able to afford to go to it.
A lot of car dealerships sort of work like this, ie 'we show you the factory invoice'. OK, so that shows you how much they paid for the car. However, when a consumer buys an item and gets a rebate, it doesn't show up on the invoice, right? There probably exist a similiar situation on their end: The dealership can get all sort of rebates and allowances that won't show up on their 'factory invoice'.
>hop on a bus
Nope -- Greyhound requires ID now.
I seem to recall that new types of reactors (pebble-bed?) will naturally lose their critical mass when the cooland is lost.
Nothing is more annoying then getting a 11pm page, only to find that you'll have to spend 30 minutes driving to work to make a 5 minute fix to a system, then drive home again, when all you really wanted to do was fire up the VPN and do it from home.
There was a SciFi book about this. Far side of moon, etc... everything was fine until someone launched a rather large mirror that allowed the beam to be bounced back to earth.
I think I read somewhere that a massive shift in the earth's orientation may have happened at some far feaching time in the past.
I think there is some sort of physical contact to do that though; either a quickly deployed road strip (sort of like a spike strip but with electrical contacts that brush up) or a rocket-powered minicar that runs under the vehicle.
IANAS, but few reflective surfaces are 100% reflective (if any), so some energy will be absorbed, which will marr the surface, causing more energy to be absorbed, etc. It may help a little, but not much.
Did they actually pay that much, or was it some sort of stock swap?
Anyone know where to get a server cert from a recognized CA for free?
But they aren't going to give up 'cash' to install a couple of thousand copies of Windows on these school machines. It'll just be the ammount they decide to 'charge for it that they claim they 'lost'.
What happens when every police station / prison meeting room has a sign "this room may be monitored". The problem with surveilance is that it tends to expand, then the protocols for implementing it become grey (as in the sign in my complex's laundry room that states that there is a security camera, and there isn't) until everyone *says* they are monitoring, even if they aren't.
How many cars have a sticker on them for some no-name security product, when the product is just the sticker?
If you are watching a recording, then you aren't watching a new broadcast -- which means they don't have eyeballs on the ads they are broadcasting, meaning their revenue goes down. Sort of like web banners and cacheing proxies -- lots of places make their banner ads uncacheable so that they can record each and every impression.
A great strategy based game is Empire. Turn based, some games go on for three months (production only happens once a day). There are also one-day 'blitz' games. Text mode, very intricate.
You have to have some application understanding to handle things like FTP (active mode), otherwise the other ports don't get opened.
Well duh, they mean that they'll protect their customers by sueing the pants off anyone who presents proof that their products are not in fact secure.
Uptimes.net sort of did this; their client would keep the database updated and indicated the type of system it is running on. Unfortunately the project got canned since too many firewall products complained about the outbound connections made by the client.
I believe I read somewhere that the postmarked envelope thing doesn't stand up in court. Too easy to tamper with the envelope I suppose.
Although there may not be anything now, it seems like there could be a market for a site that, at a users request, slurp a page (and images, if so desired),tarball it, GPG sign in, and send it to you. Since they are a impartial third party the date of the signature would be pretty solid as would the contents of the slurp. One could even have it act like Stamper which will sign anything sent to it over email, and post the signature to USENET (not the contents) to help bolster it's timestamp.
I think most late-model modems will translate the letters to numbers for youe, IE ABC=2,DEF=3, on the idea that people are typeing out 1-800-MYISP etc etc.
So what are the odds of /dev/random spitting out a hyper-optimized version DeCSS?
I believe it was the polarization of the armor plating that went offline. Perhaps 'polarizing' it makes it withstand energy-weapon attacks better.
http://worm.jungnickel.com/ also does this; it works with the segfault-prone CodeBlue apache log scanner.
I doubt the worm fill follow redirects.