The airlines needed to spend hundreds of thousands per plane to install connexion, something financially strapped airlines wern't exactly clamoring to do.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could turn back the clock 10 years and have our greatest concern about the President be, quite legitimately, that he once lied in court about whether he had sex with an intern.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could turn back the clock 10 years and have our greatest concern about the President be, quite legitimately, that he once lied in a deposition for a civil case?
The difference between Bill Clinton and George Bush is Bill Clinton thought he had to break the law to cover his ass. George Bush doesn't think the law applies to him in the first place.
The government is not supposed to abridge your right to free speech. Listening to your phone calls abridges that right - the mere fact that the government may be listening to my private communication affects my ability to speak freely.
That doesn't mean the government shouldn't be able to listen to phone calls, but not without DUE PROCESS, i.e., a warrant.
First off, I an inclined to say that this is an ultimate waste of money. I lost so many coats as a child in Michigan that I cannot imagine having held onto a cell phone at age 6.
Apparently your parents didn't use enough duct tape.
The problem I see is lobbying for a law that requires people to license patented technology AND making the license fee expensive. Of course if I hear wrong and it's a reasonable fee, then the saw industry people are the greedy selfish ones.
Indeed, there is no reason for such a law. The market will work it out - if the cost of the safety technology is lower than the cost of not having the safety technology, people will just buy the safety technology.
because Coke is already making money on bottles of Dr. Pepper.
Actually, the local coca-cola bottler/distributor is making money on bottles of Dr. Pepper. Coca-Cola the international syrup manufacturer doesn't see a dime.
Apparently the author of the article didn't read the stories in RISKS that he cited.
He just stored the causes of the bugs in floats, and they were unfortunately rounded to slightly different causes when he displayed them for the article.
A terrorist organization is like any other organization - it's primary goal is to insure the continuation of the organization.
They start out as a group with a certain goal - erradication if Isreal, independence from a particular government, etc. But the organization then develops, and you get a power structure. People are running the organization, people are members of the organization, people are recruiting new members to the organization. To the people in that oganization, who conduct their lives around the organization's goals, actually ACHIEVING the goal becomes an ancillary concern. Participation is the reward, and for those at the top, being at the top is a strong incentive to keep the organization going.
The only thing that organizations like Islamic Jihad, for example, dislike more than Isreal would be the destruction of Israel - because then you don't need Islamic Jihad anymore. The goal that started the fight has been replaced by the goal of conducting the fight. The IDEOLOGY is still 'Destroy Israel', but the goal of the acts of the organization is merely to perpetuate the organization.
If it will burn their esophagus out on the spot and cause them to cough up blood on the screener, that might just be a clue for the screeners that the substance isn't really toothpaste.
Apparently you're not using a very good toothpaste. You wouldn't believe how white my teeth are. (My gums are a little red though.)
Nearly all of the excessive airport security regulations and equipment we have adopted since 9/11 to fight terrorists is a waste of time and money. If a terrorist is willing to kill themselves, no amount of security at the airport is going to stop them.
The only place you can stop terrorists like these is the same way this most recent plot was foiled - with good intelligence work that detects the plots prior to the execution stage. Once the terrorists get to the execution stage, it's too late - either you let them on the plane with their battery and 'shampoo' and they blow up the plane, or you search everyone so they can't bring batteries and 'shampoo' on planes and the terrorists just blow up the security line instead. And letting them on the plane is better - at least then you're only open to attacks from multiple, coordinated suicide bombers backed by people with chemical expertise; if you try and catch them at the checkpoint your checkpoint is vulnerable to any garden-variety lunatic with an automatic weapon or a pipe bomb.
The US has entirely overreacted to this threat by banning all these things from carryons. Instead of making us safer, these changes have just created tens of thousands of ripe targets standing in large groups in front of airport security checkpoints.
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It's more apt to compare Apple systems to those low-to-midrange workstations from Sun and IBM.
I mistyped my credit card information, so they asked me if I could to to them again over email.
I am always amused by people who are concerned about sending their credit card number over email. Credit card numbers are just plain not secure period. The number is even printed right on your card, and also encoded in a machine-readable format! It's sent through the mail on your bill, it's printed on receipts (although things are getting much better here), there are plenty of easy ways to illicitly get credit card numbers that are much easier than email.
If you're not willing to send a credit card number through email, then you probably just shouldn't have a credit card at all.
Maybe they already did, and you just don't know about it. Wouldn't take much to toss a couple carrier/submarine-style nuclear reactors under the building.
But, they probably don't want to use those day-to-day. And building a new power plant doesn't happen overnight.
They make more revenue, but they've also raised the price of postage several times in the past 5 years.
1) But not much out of line with inflation. 2) If you don't like it, use their competitors. 3) Apply some common sense. 1st class mail delivery is really not profitable. It's more of a government mandated service USPS is required to provide that they really don't make money on. Delivering packages using an existing shipping network, however, is very profitable - the USPS makes a much, much higher margin on priority mail and express mail deliveries than it does first class mail.
Losing volume on items that wern't profitable for you in the first place in exchange for increased volume in items that are profitable for you will obviously lead to more profit.
As far as I can tell, with all of the junk mail that comes piling into my mailbox, the USPS ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
That junk mail is what allows the post office to offer first class mail for $0.37 when UPS ground and FedEx ground are often $8 and up.
Besides, they more powers and subsidies than any other delivery corporation out there.
Powers maybe, subsidies no, USPS has it's own separate budget.
I highly doubt they were scared - considering the quality of service I receive in downtown Philly - job security is not an issue.
I have never received a more consistent level of excellent customer service than I have with USPS. But if everyone else in dontown philly has your attitude, there may just not be any employees with suitable customer service skills available to hire.
ATM's have had years to go through many iterations to get to a "secure" and "reliable" system (that even then can have anomolies)?
It's because if your ATM isn't secure, nobody will buy it, because they won't want to lose their money. If your voting machine isn't secure, the state government will buy it anyway.
Many of my friends in high school experimented with drugs. Some of them ended up as successful adults who don't use drugs anymore, and some of them ended up as addicts. With those two end results, why bother experimenting in the first place?
One of the advantages in living in a civilized society is that members of the society can inform other members of their experiences so that we can learn from mistakes committed by others without having to commit those mistakes ourselves. If other people have already figured out that drugs can ruin your live, attempting to prove that again for yourself is not a sign of maturity, it's an excercise in futility, and a stupid one at that.
Just because it's more fun than than learning for yourself that drinking gasoline is bad for you doesn't make it any less stupid.
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The airlines needed to spend hundreds of thousands per plane to install connexion, something financially strapped airlines wern't exactly clamoring to do.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could turn back the clock 10 years and have our greatest concern about the President be, quite legitimately, that he once lied in court about whether he had sex with an intern.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could turn back the clock 10 years and have our greatest concern about the President be, quite legitimately, that he once lied in a deposition for a civil case?
The difference between Bill Clinton and George Bush is Bill Clinton thought he had to break the law to cover his ass. George Bush doesn't think the law applies to him in the first place.
The government is not supposed to abridge your right to free speech. Listening to your phone calls abridges that right - the mere fact that the government may be listening to my private communication affects my ability to speak freely.
That doesn't mean the government shouldn't be able to listen to phone calls, but not without DUE PROCESS, i.e., a warrant.
First off, I an inclined to say that this is an ultimate waste of money. I lost so many coats as a child in Michigan that I cannot imagine having held onto a cell phone at age 6.
Apparently your parents didn't use enough duct tape.
Real geeks would have used string and a slide rule.
Wiat, real OLD geeks would have used string and a slide rule.
"It takes two to make peace, but only one to make war"
It only takes one to make peace, if they're really good at war.
The problem I see is lobbying for a law that requires people to license patented technology AND making the license fee expensive. Of course if I hear wrong and it's a reasonable fee, then the saw industry people are the greedy selfish ones.
Indeed, there is no reason for such a law. The market will work it out - if the cost of the safety technology is lower than the cost of not having the safety technology, people will just buy the safety technology.
because Coke is already making money on bottles of Dr. Pepper.
Actually, the local coca-cola bottler/distributor is making money on bottles of Dr. Pepper. Coca-Cola the international syrup manufacturer doesn't see a dime.
Pay-per-view or no-pay-per-no-view?
Slashdot subscriber with fingers in his eye sockets!
Apparently the author of the article didn't read the stories in RISKS that he cited.
He just stored the causes of the bugs in floats, and they were unfortunately rounded to slightly different causes when he displayed them for the article.
A terrorist organization is like any other organization - it's primary goal is to insure the continuation of the organization.
They start out as a group with a certain goal - erradication if Isreal, independence from a particular government, etc. But the organization then develops, and you get a power structure. People are running the organization, people are members of the organization, people are recruiting new members to the organization. To the people in that oganization, who conduct their lives around the organization's goals, actually ACHIEVING the goal becomes an ancillary concern. Participation is the reward, and for those at the top, being at the top is a strong incentive to keep the organization going.
The only thing that organizations like Islamic Jihad, for example, dislike more than Isreal would be the destruction of Israel - because then you don't need Islamic Jihad anymore. The goal that started the fight has been replaced by the goal of conducting the fight. The IDEOLOGY is still 'Destroy Israel', but the goal of the acts of the organization is merely to perpetuate the organization.
If it will burn their esophagus out on the spot and cause them to cough up blood on the screener, that might just be a clue for the screeners that the substance isn't really toothpaste.
Apparently you're not using a very good toothpaste. You wouldn't believe how white my teeth are. (My gums are a little red though.)
Nearly all of the excessive airport security regulations and equipment we have adopted since 9/11 to fight terrorists is a waste of time and money. If a terrorist is willing to kill themselves, no amount of security at the airport is going to stop them.
The only place you can stop terrorists like these is the same way this most recent plot was foiled - with good intelligence work that detects the plots prior to the execution stage. Once the terrorists get to the execution stage, it's too late - either you let them on the plane with their battery and 'shampoo' and they blow up the plane, or you search everyone so they can't bring batteries and 'shampoo' on planes and the terrorists just blow up the security line instead. And letting them on the plane is better - at least then you're only open to attacks from multiple, coordinated suicide bombers backed by people with chemical expertise; if you try and catch them at the checkpoint your checkpoint is vulnerable to any garden-variety lunatic with an automatic weapon or a pipe bomb.
The US has entirely overreacted to this threat by banning all these things from carryons. Instead of making us safer, these changes have just created tens of thousands of ripe targets standing in large groups in front of airport security checkpoints.
It's more apt to compare Apple systems to those low-to-midrange workstations from Sun and IBM.
Price or performance?
I mistyped my credit card information, so they asked me if I could to to them again over email.
I am always amused by people who are concerned about sending their credit card number over email. Credit card numbers are just plain not secure period. The number is even printed right on your card, and also encoded in a machine-readable format! It's sent through the mail on your bill, it's printed on receipts (although things are getting much better here), there are plenty of easy ways to illicitly get credit card numbers that are much easier than email.
If you're not willing to send a credit card number through email, then you probably just shouldn't have a credit card at all.
It's .NULL, and it's the default.
Maybe they already did, and you just don't know about it. Wouldn't take much to toss a couple carrier/submarine-style nuclear reactors under the building.
But, they probably don't want to use those day-to-day. And building a new power plant doesn't happen overnight.
I think you're missing a subtle difference.
It is legal to award an option today for the price the stock was at at some point in the past.
It is not legal to award an option today and then claim it was actually awarded at some point in the past.
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(A).
Well, if I can trivially circumvent the technological measure, wouldn't that mean it doesn't effectively control access?
Capitalism "works" because it encourages the creation of wealth. ...by assuming people want to be wealthy.
They make more revenue, but they've also raised the price of postage several times in the past 5 years.
1) But not much out of line with inflation.
2) If you don't like it, use their competitors.
3) Apply some common sense. 1st class mail delivery is really not profitable. It's more of a government mandated service USPS is required to provide that they really don't make money on. Delivering packages using an existing shipping network, however, is very profitable - the USPS makes a much, much higher margin on priority mail and express mail deliveries than it does first class mail.
Losing volume on items that wern't profitable for you in the first place in exchange for increased volume in items that are profitable for you will obviously lead to more profit.
As far as I can tell, with all of the junk mail that comes piling into my mailbox, the USPS ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
That junk mail is what allows the post office to offer first class mail for $0.37 when UPS ground and FedEx ground are often $8 and up.
Besides, they more powers and subsidies than any other delivery corporation out there.
Powers maybe, subsidies no, USPS has it's own separate budget.
I highly doubt they were scared - considering the quality of service I receive in downtown Philly - job security is not an issue.
I have never received a more consistent level of excellent customer service than I have with USPS. But if everyone else in dontown philly has your attitude, there may just not be any employees with suitable customer service skills available to hire.
ATM's have had years to go through many iterations to get to a "secure" and "reliable" system (that even then can have anomolies)?
It's because if your ATM isn't secure, nobody will buy it, because they won't want to lose their money. If your voting machine isn't secure, the state government will buy it anyway.
Many of my friends in high school experimented with drugs. Some of them ended up as successful adults who don't use drugs anymore, and some of them ended up as addicts. With those two end results, why bother experimenting in the first place?
One of the advantages in living in a civilized society is that members of the society can inform other members of their experiences so that we can learn from mistakes committed by others without having to commit those mistakes ourselves. If other people have already figured out that drugs can ruin your live, attempting to prove that again for yourself is not a sign of maturity, it's an excercise in futility, and a stupid one at that.
Just because it's more fun than than learning for yourself that drinking gasoline is bad for you doesn't make it any less stupid.