Does litigation work any better? Ur.. No. The first few posts can show you it has just made Playfair more available and popular. It has probably increased use as well.
A small but significant change to Apple's software could make Playfair useless. Continued changes would likely make the project author(s) stop trying.
My point is that comparing litigation to programming neither method is more effective or cheaper. So programming certainly IS an alternative
The folks at http://lame.sourceforge.net/ seem confortable with their level of legal risk. I use L.A.M.E. because I feel my music sounds better. If L.A.M.E. encoded.mp3's end up being a "safe harbor" for non-DRM.mp3 files so much the better.
In my senior year of my CS degree we had a senior project class where the whole class broke up into teams to program on a single project.
My team's proposal was to build a rear-projection 180deg concave display system. The screen material was an opaque plastic similar to the stuff used for 1 gallon milk jugs in the US. The display driver was supposed to account for the nonlinear shape of the surface.
The prof was not interested however and the class was guided towards a web solution for the Tattered Cover book store (DB backend for web base purchasing zzzz)
American beef can certainly be imported into the the EU. I grew up in Omaha and ordered beef shipped to me in the UK while I lived there (2001). I was told by the salesperson on the phone that Omaha Steaks went thru some kind of certification process with EU regulators. Great beef BTW.
Language can certainly influence thought, however as you point out well it does not limit or control thought.
To use your example of light and dark, a healthy person without the color words would see colors but would not normally care about what color something was. They would just think about the dark and lightness of objects they see. Obviously, once they were told about colors and taught the labels they would be able to recognize colors. However, I bet it would probably not be automatic for a while, if ever.
Language abstraction is a powerful influence. The descriptors(language) one uses to abstract one's environment can influence or mislead if the language 1. lacks perspective or 2. overloads words using stereotypes
EX. 1 Many languages lack a description of time. Everything is described in the present tense. There is not even a word for time. This gives rise to some interesting cause and effect or non-linear logic and language constructs.
EX. 2 In Cypriot Greek the word for black spoken with the female gender suffix means: Black Woman, Servant, Maid, Slave, subservient wife. Someone who only speaks this language is probably misled into not holding black women in high regard until taught otherwise.
I use Spybot for my company. I manage the centralization with logon scripts. We have all W2k machines.
I have tried Ad-Aware as well and feel Spybot is better because:
1. It detects and successfully removes more junk 2. It uses the.hosts file to block many of the adware sites that collect info and supply spyware 3. It has some success at stopping new spyware from being installed 4. It has some nice utilities included as well. (startup application checker & file shredder) 5. I do not trust Gator. Who make Ad-Aware.
An easier clean up method across all of the M$ Windows OSs is to use Spybot Search and Destroy.
It duplicates some of msconfig's functions in the Tools section. It blocks more than AdAware (which is made by Gator). It also explains what the common startups are and why you might or might not want to turn them off.
Do you think getting a Ph.D. in CompSci or CompEng will improve or worsen my career outlook in the industry?
It depends on where and what you are looking for. If you apply for a position as the head of a university or government IT dept. It is almost a requirement. In many UN and EU positions it is a requirement. In some government jobs it means an automatic raise. In the private sector it is a mixed bag... see below.
Has anyone witnessed someone being turned down for a job because he had too much education?
Yes, Many managers do not want a more educated or smarter person around.
If you're a hiring manager, what is your opinion on someone who has a Ph.D. and is otherwise already qualified for the position?"
I probably would not hire a Ph.D. for operations (complex or not). I would only consider for planning, development, design, or research. Advisory and high level training jobs are possible but rare.
Prepare, and help your co-workers prepare. Look for alternative employment. Make sure you have enough savings to ride out 6mo to a year of no job. Investigate the financial position of the company carefully. Are the managers looking looking for another job? How do you feel about doing something else or working somewhere else?
Once you and your comrades have done most of these things, arrange a meeting with the head of the company via your manager. Be professional. Be prepared to show this person a SOLUTION. He will not be sympathetic to complainers. Demonstrate to the chief that your changes will save/make the company money.
If the boss agrees, monitor the progress of the changes to be sure they really happen. If not, You have packed your parachute.
This is unenforceable on small transactions. If you know how, you certainly will not be forced to pay.
Step 1 Get a US Mailing address
Step 2 Find a way to get the product. (Easy for software/services/music harder for physical goods.) Hand carried by freind flying back from USA is almost surefire. You can have someone relay it to you via uninsured US Mail. It is a little risky but works. If you insure it they will stop it comming in. Do not ship in a new box. On the declaration put "Clothes" or "Personal Goods". Use some old clothes as packing material. Warantee Repairs are not taxable via customs or VAT in some of the EU and that declaration will get thru as well in those places.
Step 3 Get a US Credit Card. Not easy for a non-US resident. Now you are buying from the US and get dollar prices and the superior consumer protection of the US credit cards.
Think about this. If My store is in a airport duty free these taxes magicaly go away. So why should online sales be different?
Granted it wasn't America alone, but it was America's contribution that was a critical turning point in WWII
Notice the word "contribution" does not mean Army or Forces. It is 100% accurate to say that without the US material + military contribution WWII would have ended differently.
The Russian army ran on US trucks. This allowed them to build other things. Like their excellent tanks...
...I learned how to create fake checks with nothing more than a laser printer, specialized check stock, and specialized MICR toner. When combined with the fake IDs, it took only a few minutes of work to illicitely gain hundreds of dollars.
If the bank timestamps its transactions at the teller and has good surveilance equipment, can't they get a picture of your face?
...I can create fake credit cards in a matter of a half hour or so. Go to the store, swipe for a few laptops, and sell.
Do you fence your goods for cash? That can pose a risk it seems? Resale by Ebay seems like a good alternative I guess however.
How easy was it to learn about printing the magnetic info? This seems the key to the credit card fraud.
Scale is one of the huge advantages the USA enjoys. It helps us economically as well obviously. Smaller countries certainly have to make different choices. It is all in the Math.
I am an American and I have enourmous respect for Finland's performance in WW2.
Finland was in one of the hardest positions of WW2. Forced to ally with Germany or become a Soviet republic. Finns danced with the devil and came out with an independent nation.
My Aunt is a state rep in Missourri. I asked her about this one.
She said that in MO individuals and businesses are supposed to declare what they bought from out of state and then pay state sales tax on it. However, both parties realize the political cost of implementing this is too high, so they go after the big volume retailers (who do not vote or have much influence in MO) to enforce the tax for them. She said the state had made a deal with Dell years ago to charge MO sales tax.
This thing is heavy, ugly and will not fit in my pocket. Does it connect to iTunes? I did not think so! Who needs all that silly storage space and overhyped digital recording stuff anyway.
Apple products are soo much more stylish and streamlined as well. >10% marketshare cannot be wrong.
Very true RH, SPAM is hard to trace back to a responsible individual. However, a bullet proof protocol for identifing the email's source is only going to get you an account name. How do you connect that to a person?
I think the average commercial SPAM operation is not above giving a fake ID to the ISP that hosts them today. I truly believe the motivation not the implementation is the problem.
I am not so sure anonymous email is such a bad thing. Anonymous Coward is a pretty big contributor here. Does A.C. need to be addressed?
It is great that folks are taking this issue more seriously but how is improving the protocol for sending email going to deter spam? This seems analogous to discouraging annoying speech by changing languages.
On a fundamental level. Economics drives SPAM. People send it because they are making money. The most efficient way to stop SPAM is probably just to render it unprofitable somehow.
Developing a new solution is usually the best way to fix technical problems. But this is really a social/economic problem. New protocols, hardware, and software can make the environment less hospitable to SPAM but I doubt they will be an effective use of resources.
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Does litigation work any better? Ur.. No. The first few posts can show you it has just made Playfair more available and popular. It has probably increased use as well.
A small but significant change to Apple's software could make Playfair useless. Continued changes would likely make the project author(s) stop trying.
My point is that comparing litigation to programming neither method is more effective or cheaper. So programming certainly IS an alternative
Alternatively, I believe they could update their DRM technology. AOL frequently updates their IM program to throw off the folks like Trillian.
Is litigation cheaper than innovation? Who knows? It does make you wonder why they did not build security/DRM upgrades into the software...
The folks at http://lame.sourceforge.net/ seem confortable with their level of legal risk. I use L.A.M.E. because I feel my music sounds better. If L.A.M.E. encoded .mp3's end up being a "safe harbor" for non-DRM .mp3 files so much the better.
While the comparison is far from perfect, Who cares what route the money takes. U.S. Taxpayers pay the bill via Federal, State, or Local Taxes.
According to the quoted source, U.S. tax payers pay roughly similar amounts to educate and to intimidate (killing, actual combat surely costs more).
I have considered the LCD projector idea as well.
In my senior year of my CS degree we had a senior project class where the whole class broke up into teams to program on a single project.My team's proposal was to build a rear-projection 180deg concave display system. The screen material was an opaque plastic similar to the stuff used for 1 gallon milk jugs in the US. The display driver was supposed to account for the nonlinear shape of the surface.
The prof was not interested however and the class was guided towards a web solution for the Tattered Cover book store (DB backend for web base purchasing zzzz)
American beef can certainly be imported into the the EU. I grew up in Omaha and ordered beef shipped to me in the UK while I lived there (2001). I was told by the salesperson on the phone that Omaha Steaks went thru some kind of certification process with EU regulators. Great beef BTW.
http://www.omahasteaks.comLanguage can certainly influence thought, however as you point out well it does not limit or control thought.
To use your example of light and dark, a healthy person without the color words would see colors but would not normally care about what color something was. They would just think about the dark and lightness of objects they see. Obviously, once they were told about colors and taught the labels they would be able to recognize colors. However, I bet it would probably not be automatic for a while, if ever.
Language abstraction is a powerful influence. The descriptors(language) one uses to abstract one's environment can influence or mislead if the language 1. lacks perspective or 2. overloads words using stereotypes
EX. 1 Many languages lack a description of time. Everything is described in the present tense. There is not even a word for time. This gives rise to some interesting cause and effect or non-linear logic and language constructs.
EX. 2 In Cypriot Greek the word for black spoken with the female gender suffix means: Black Woman, Servant, Maid, Slave, subservient wife. Someone who only speaks this language is probably misled into not holding black women in high regard until taught otherwise.
I use Spybot for my company. I manage the centralization with logon scripts. We have all W2k machines.
I have tried Ad-Aware as well and feel Spybot is better because:
1. It detects and successfully removes more junk .hosts file to block many of the adware sites that collect info and supply spyware
2. It uses the
3. It has some success at stopping new spyware from being installed
4. It has some nice utilities included as well. (startup application checker & file shredder)
5. I do not trust Gator. Who make Ad-Aware.
An easier clean up method across all of the M$ Windows OSs is to use Spybot Search and Destroy.
It duplicates some of msconfig's functions in the Tools section. It blocks more than AdAware (which is made by Gator). It also explains what the common startups are and why you might or might not want to turn them off.Do you think getting a Ph.D. in CompSci or CompEng will improve or worsen my career outlook in the industry?
It depends on where and what you are looking for. If you apply for a position as the head of a university or government IT dept. It is almost a requirement. In many UN and EU positions it is a requirement. In some government jobs it means an automatic raise. In the private sector it is a mixed bag... see below.
Has anyone witnessed someone being turned down for a job because he had too much education?
Yes, Many managers do not want a more educated or smarter person around.
If you're a hiring manager, what is your opinion on someone who has a Ph.D. and is otherwise already qualified for the position?"
I probably would not hire a Ph.D. for operations (complex or not). I would only consider for planning, development, design, or research. Advisory and high level training jobs are possible but rare.
That poor dog :-( A six month trip to Mars with not return ticket. I wonder what PETA thinks of this.
A longer article mentioned a bigger strider they studied.
I found it amazing that the robot was half the size of the Asian giant water strider.
An 8 inch Water Strider might make a cool pet!
What would it eat? How big of a pond would you need? Does anyone have experience with these critters?
OMH, I own an RX300 and a Toyota Prius. Am I amazingly inconsistent or do I average out to a light green car owner?
I would use Ad-Aware with caution. I have tried Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. I find Spybot a much better program.
Carol Anne honey. Run to the gateway honey. Run to the light Carol Anne!
What is your defintion of fraud Malc? Who is the victim?
Prepare, and help your co-workers prepare. Look for alternative employment. Make sure you have enough savings to ride out 6mo to a year of no job. Investigate the financial position of the company carefully. Are the managers looking looking for another job? How do you feel about doing something else or working somewhere else?
Once you and your comrades have done most of these things, arrange a meeting with the head of the company via your manager. Be professional. Be prepared to show this person a SOLUTION. He will not be sympathetic to complainers. Demonstrate to the chief that your changes will save/make the company money.
If the boss agrees, monitor the progress of the changes to be sure they really happen. If not, You have packed your parachute.
Good Luck
Yes, I do it all the time.
This is unenforceable on small transactions. If you know how, you certainly will not be forced to pay.
Step 1 Get a US Mailing address
Step 2 Find a way to get the product. (Easy for software/services/music harder for physical goods.) Hand carried by freind flying back from USA is almost surefire. You can have someone relay it to you via uninsured US Mail. It is a little risky but works. If you insure it they will stop it comming in. Do not ship in a new box. On the declaration put "Clothes" or "Personal Goods". Use some old clothes as packing material. Warantee Repairs are not taxable via customs or VAT in some of the EU and that declaration will get thru as well in those places.
Step 3 Get a US Credit Card. Not easy for a non-US resident. Now you are buying from the US and get dollar prices and the superior consumer protection of the US credit cards.
Think about this. If My store is in a airport duty free these taxes magicaly go away. So why should online sales be different?
Granted it wasn't America alone, but it was America's contribution that was a critical turning point in WWII
Notice the word "contribution" does not mean Army or Forces. It is 100% accurate to say that without the US material + military contribution WWII would have ended differently.
The Russian army ran on US trucks. This allowed them to build other things. Like their excellent tanks...
If the bank timestamps its transactions at the teller and has good surveilance equipment, can't they get a picture of your face?
Do you fence your goods for cash? That can pose a risk it seems? Resale by Ebay seems like a good alternative I guess however.
How easy was it to learn about printing the magnetic info? This seems the key to the credit card fraud.
Scale is one of the huge advantages the USA enjoys. It helps us economically as well obviously. Smaller countries certainly have to make different choices. It is all in the Math.
I am an American and I have enourmous respect for Finland's performance in WW2. Finland was in one of the hardest positions of WW2. Forced to ally with Germany or become a Soviet republic. Finns danced with the devil and came out with an independent nation.
My Aunt is a state rep in Missourri. I asked her about this one.
She said that in MO individuals and businesses are supposed to declare what they bought from out of state and then pay state sales tax on it. However, both parties realize the political cost of implementing this is too high, so they go after the big volume retailers (who do not vote or have much influence in MO) to enforce the tax for them. She said the state had made a deal with Dell years ago to charge MO sales tax.
This thing is heavy, ugly and will not fit in my pocket. Does it connect to iTunes? I did not think so! Who needs all that silly storage space and overhyped digital recording stuff anyway.
Apple products are soo much more stylish and streamlined as well. >10% marketshare cannot be wrong.
Very true RH, SPAM is hard to trace back to a responsible individual. However, a bullet proof protocol for identifing the email's source is only going to get you an account name. How do you connect that to a person?
I think the average commercial SPAM operation is not above giving a fake ID to the ISP that hosts them today. I truly believe the motivation not the implementation is the problem.
I am not so sure anonymous email is such a bad thing. Anonymous Coward is a pretty big contributor here. Does A.C. need to be addressed?
It is great that folks are taking this issue more seriously but how is improving the protocol for sending email going to deter spam? This seems analogous to discouraging annoying speech by changing languages.
On a fundamental level. Economics drives SPAM. People send it because they are making money. The most efficient way to stop SPAM is probably just to render it unprofitable somehow.
Developing a new solution is usually the best way to fix technical problems. But this is really a social/economic problem. New protocols, hardware, and software can make the environment less hospitable to SPAM but I doubt they will be an effective use of resources.