So? Moving would be less of an inconvenience than not being able to get a license to do the work you are trained for. (Especially for a truck driver, who will only be home maybe one day in seven...)
Nope. In the USA, if a company can figure out a way to gather information about you, that information is theirs for whatever purpose they feel like using it for.
It's not. It's supposed to be unique (within certain criteria: they do get reused eventually) across everyone in the USA, so the Social Security Administration can identify everyone. That's all it was designed for.
It just happened that the SSN was the first major government number that everyone was required to have. So everyone else used the fact that it was there and unique to make their lives easier. Which means that now everybody tracks you by that number, and if you have that number you can impersonate anyone in any database that uses it.
It's not supposed to be secret. It's not supposed to be your full ID. It just became that.
That would depend on the programs running at the time, wouldn't it? After all, some do use the GPS coordinates, so it is reasonable that some have a bug in how they do so...
As stated in the summary, that's the EPA's rating, not GM's rating. It comes from the same place as the MPG rating on your car right now. GM didn't calculate it, or come up with it. They are just quoting it.
And yes, it's a plug-in. (That's the point.) And that is for driving using the power from the grid. Power plants are much more efficient than the engines in cars, so I assume that's being worked into that somewhere.
That said: This is the first time the EPA has ever tried to rate a plug-in electric vehicle, and their rating system probably has a few bugs to work out...
That may or may not solve the problem, depending on how the ISP is implementing the hyjacking. If they have just set up some records in their DNS boxes, then yes, setting up your own namesever will solve the problem. If they are capturing all UDP port 53 traffic and handling it themselves, then it won't.
The name of the box is, of course, irrelevant. But you still have it wrong: Comcast's DNS server isn't affecting the company's internal DNS server, it is affecting their customer's box, who is your employee, making it so that they never query your internal DNS server.
This happens precisely because they don't know anything about the internal network, and yet they are telling your employee they do.
Sure, but they just figured out how to do real green lazers (by 'just' I mean this last month), and the fake green lazers they've been using are energy and space hogs. LEDs are cheap, small, and they work.
I don't think they want this to compete with real projectors, they just want to add a feature to the camera that many will find useful: The ability to immediately show the pictures to a group of people. I can see plenty of times when that would have been useful, even if the quality wasn't top-notch.
I think this may not be aimed at the 747 market. There is a fair push for small, light planes, which only carry a few passengers, and can be flown weekends by a person with an average income. This is probably going to be something a bit bigger than that, but it's easy to think regional-to-regional airports. There are a lot more of them there are airports that can handle a 747, and if you could make a plane that could fly from/to those cheaply it would be well worth it.
And it depends on which rules, and where. Not all rule-breaking helps, just those that encourage the flow of traffic.
Personally, there's one rule I'd like ingrained in every driver's head: never match speeds with someone in the lane next to you. Pass, fall behind, whatever. Just don't sit there turning a two-lane road into what's effectively a one-lane road.
Yeah, if AT&T had just gotten their ass together and made sure they had good coverage in DC, they wouldn't be in this mess. As it is, a congressman with an iPhone is reminded every day they are in Washington that they can't switch to a company with good coverage.
You forgot something. You see, I can forgive all that: It's a corporation, operating in it's own self-interest. Yeah, they wouldn't be on my 'nice guys' list, but it leaves them no different than any other big company out there.
What sets Microsoft apart is the fact that competing on the merits of the product is always the last choice for them. They will bribe, influence, undercut, disinform, re-brand, and lock-in. They act always an only as if their customers deserve nothing, and should be handing over as much money as MS wants at any and all times. They will do anything they can to avoid being in a position to be directly evaluated against a competitor of the strength of their products. And they will avoid improving their products unless forced to by an outside force, be it competition or government. And even then they will only improve them as much as they need to in order to deflect the force.
They are not in the software business. They are in the business of dominating software markets. The fact that doing so occasionally requires them to write software is incidental, as far as I can see.
If and when Microsoft turns itself into a company that will compete on the strength of it's products, I will consider starting to trust them, somewhat. Until then, even the smallest bite is a poison pill, eventually requiring you to swallow all their products.
Sure, Junior may have wanted them. He wanted a lot of things.
But the people arguing against it at the DoD were appointed by Junior. (Obama hasn't gotten around to doing a lot of the normal replacements.)
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Why? The F35 is more useful in any fight we are likely to get into during the lifetime of these airplanes. Why spend money on something you don't need?
Which is exactly why the Defense Department was against ordering these planes.
Something is seriously wrong when we are having a discussion over whether we need to spend millions of dollars on weapons the people who'd use those weapons don't want.
Hmm, I haven't followed to closely, but let's see... How about when they distributed their own implementation of Java, that didn't quite work to the spec? Or Internet Explorer 5/6, which had an issue with computing a dimension to the CSS standard. Or, of course, there is MS's version of the ODF standard, and their own competing XML document format.
That's what I can think off of the top of my head. I'm sure someone who's followed more closely can think of more.
(Trust can be lost in a day, but takes a lifetime to earn. MS has spent a lifetime abusing trust. If they want it back, they will have to prove they deserve it.)
On the other hand, if it's a semi-reasonable amount: Report it to the bank. Some banks will actually say 'oops, our error, your gain' and let you keep the money.
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So? Moving would be less of an inconvenience than not being able to get a license to do the work you are trained for. (Especially for a truck driver, who will only be home maybe one day in seven...)
Of course, you can usually look up someone's birthdate if you have their SSN...
No, now you've just changed which number you are basing the problems off of. (And I've had four driver's license numbers in the past 10 years.)
Nope. In the USA, if a company can figure out a way to gather information about you, that information is theirs for whatever purpose they feel like using it for.
We are good little corporate slaves.
It's not. It's supposed to be unique (within certain criteria: they do get reused eventually) across everyone in the USA, so the Social Security Administration can identify everyone. That's all it was designed for.
It just happened that the SSN was the first major government number that everyone was required to have. So everyone else used the fact that it was there and unique to make their lives easier. Which means that now everybody tracks you by that number, and if you have that number you can impersonate anyone in any database that uses it.
It's not supposed to be secret. It's not supposed to be your full ID. It just became that.
That would depend on the programs running at the time, wouldn't it? After all, some do use the GPS coordinates, so it is reasonable that some have a bug in how they do so...
That is not an argument to stop building electric cars. That is an argument to start building more powerplants.
Which is a good idea, and another discussion.
Getting worse mileage than the best in the world isn't exactly something to complain loudly about... Even on the engine, it gets better than a Prius.
As stated in the summary, that's the EPA's rating, not GM's rating. It comes from the same place as the MPG rating on your car right now. GM didn't calculate it, or come up with it. They are just quoting it.
And yes, it's a plug-in. (That's the point.) And that is for driving using the power from the grid. Power plants are much more efficient than the engines in cars, so I assume that's being worked into that somewhere.
That said: This is the first time the EPA has ever tried to rate a plug-in electric vehicle, and their rating system probably has a few bugs to work out...
That may or may not solve the problem, depending on how the ISP is implementing the hyjacking. If they have just set up some records in their DNS boxes, then yes, setting up your own namesever will solve the problem. If they are capturing all UDP port 53 traffic and handling it themselves, then it won't.
The name of the box is, of course, irrelevant. But you still have it wrong: Comcast's DNS server isn't affecting the company's internal DNS server, it is affecting their customer's box, who is your employee, making it so that they never query your internal DNS server.
This happens precisely because they don't know anything about the internal network, and yet they are telling your employee they do.
Sure, but they just figured out how to do real green lazers (by 'just' I mean this last month), and the fake green lazers they've been using are energy and space hogs. LEDs are cheap, small, and they work.
I don't think they want this to compete with real projectors, they just want to add a feature to the camera that many will find useful: The ability to immediately show the pictures to a group of people. I can see plenty of times when that would have been useful, even if the quality wasn't top-notch.
The radio plays those genres? I thought it just played DJ's and ads.
I think this may not be aimed at the 747 market. There is a fair push for small, light planes, which only carry a few passengers, and can be flown weekends by a person with an average income. This is probably going to be something a bit bigger than that, but it's easy to think regional-to-regional airports. There are a lot more of them there are airports that can handle a 747, and if you could make a plane that could fly from/to those cheaply it would be well worth it.
With the rest of the BIOS code, in the special flash-pram on the motherboard designed especially to store just that code.
And it depends on which rules, and where. Not all rule-breaking helps, just those that encourage the flow of traffic.
Personally, there's one rule I'd like ingrained in every driver's head: never match speeds with someone in the lane next to you. Pass, fall behind, whatever. Just don't sit there turning a two-lane road into what's effectively a one-lane road.
Yeah, if AT&T had just gotten their ass together and made sure they had good coverage in DC, they wouldn't be in this mess. As it is, a congressman with an iPhone is reminded every day they are in Washington that they can't switch to a company with good coverage.
You forgot something. You see, I can forgive all that: It's a corporation, operating in it's own self-interest. Yeah, they wouldn't be on my 'nice guys' list, but it leaves them no different than any other big company out there.
What sets Microsoft apart is the fact that competing on the merits of the product is always the last choice for them. They will bribe, influence, undercut, disinform, re-brand, and lock-in. They act always an only as if their customers deserve nothing, and should be handing over as much money as MS wants at any and all times. They will do anything they can to avoid being in a position to be directly evaluated against a competitor of the strength of their products. And they will avoid improving their products unless forced to by an outside force, be it competition or government. And even then they will only improve them as much as they need to in order to deflect the force.
They are not in the software business. They are in the business of dominating software markets. The fact that doing so occasionally requires them to write software is incidental, as far as I can see.
If and when Microsoft turns itself into a company that will compete on the strength of it's products, I will consider starting to trust them, somewhat. Until then, even the smallest bite is a poison pill, eventually requiring you to swallow all their products.
I know. But surely we could find something useful to employ these people with instead? It's not like there aren't civilian uses for aircraft...
Sure, Junior may have wanted them. He wanted a lot of things.
But the people arguing against it at the DoD were appointed by Junior. (Obama hasn't gotten around to doing a lot of the normal replacements.)
Why? The F35 is more useful in any fight we are likely to get into during the lifetime of these airplanes. Why spend money on something you don't need?
Which is exactly why the Defense Department was against ordering these planes.
Something is seriously wrong when we are having a discussion over whether we need to spend millions of dollars on weapons the people who'd use those weapons don't want.
Hmm, I haven't followed to closely, but let's see... How about when they distributed their own implementation of Java, that didn't quite work to the spec? Or Internet Explorer 5/6, which had an issue with computing a dimension to the CSS standard. Or, of course, there is MS's version of the ODF standard, and their own competing XML document format.
That's what I can think off of the top of my head. I'm sure someone who's followed more closely can think of more.
...While you are distributing the code.
(Trust can be lost in a day, but takes a lifetime to earn. MS has spent a lifetime abusing trust. If they want it back, they will have to prove they deserve it.)
On the other hand, if it's a semi-reasonable amount: Report it to the bank. Some banks will actually say 'oops, our error, your gain' and let you keep the money.