Not hard foryblibrertariam brain at all. I don't have have to have to agree with the economic ideas the OWS group has to take their civil liberties seriously! Give some of us a little credit for being more complicated than "taser the hippies".
Finally us libertarians might even suggest that it's dangerous to have such a well equipped police force, they certainly don't need these tools to walk a beat and prevent most crime! As a libertarian I am more outraged at this than most!
You only feel that way because you have been propagandized from birth. Look nobody should want to live in a world run by pirates, in cannons on stolen ships lets kill people and steal their stuff, sense. That world of might makes right sucks, want to know what can be worse than that? A world run by tyrants.
Our Western republics are day by day being taken over by small group or ruling oligarchs with tyrannical and authoritarian ideas on dictating your life cradle to grave, and you shot at becoming one of them is growing smaller by the hour as they slam the latches on your shackles closed. I was listening to the radio this morning and in the context of another story the speaker matter of factly stated many young Italians will never have a steady job!
Wow you know what the means it means they will always be in debt and always depend on hand outs, by extension following some process to get those handouts, and having to empower the people who give them those hand outs even at the cost of their opportunity to perhaps eventually not need them. They will never know independence; Its a kinder gentler form of SLAVERY.
With tyrants if you stand up you will be crushed, well unless you lead a successful revolution. With pirates, if you take a shot odds are you will be killed but you are little more likely to prevail than against an installed tyrant. Best part is if you win against a pirate you are the new pirate king (little K).
I'd take Pirates over the current world leadership, if asked to make a choice.
Umm, Joins can be done in parallel, in lots and lots of cases. ERP and CRP are applications that ought to see big improvements form more cores, if you have more than a few users anyway. It also simplifies things, you don't have to figure out how to architect the thing to run across 10 hosts anymore, good multi-core systems deliver there performance these apps need if you can get the disk IO solved. A good SAN with mutlipath support and multiple HBAs can get there.
Niagara failed because each individual core was too slow, a comparable cost Intel CPU could do in serial with one core two jobs, in less time than Niagara could do one job with on core. The question is here for most paralleled work loads like a database where all cores will be used are AMDs 16 core chips at least 62% the speed of Intel's 10 core chips on core vs. core basis? If true other things being equal for *some* work loads these Opterons will be better.
You could argue that but I would shoot back that it's really a tax break for every individual with a job. The very wealthy would be getting a refund as wellhid they have any salary, but the Buffets of the world get most of there income classified as unearned so it would be a smaller financial event in their context.
The stupidity of tax breaks to corps and the wealthy as job stimulus is that corps don't hire unless there is demand for their products. In a recession what you have as the prevailing economic environment is low demand and excess capacity.
BINGO!
What we should have done rather than the Economic Recovery Act would have been simple refund 100% of everyone's individual income tax on the earned portion of the their income and allow them to keep the earned income tax credit. That would have put heaps of money in the hands of the middle class and provided a nice pay day to the working poor as well.
That would have spread the money around and forced the corporations and banks to *DO* some economic activity to get hold of it. That would have created JOBS, and secured American house holds by reducing debts, might have lifted real estate prices a little, and replaced all kinds of durable goods.
By injecting the money at the top instead the bottom it just let the usual rent-seeking a-holes abuse their cozy relationships to snatch those government contracts, over charge, under deliver, pace the work slowly enough that they need not increase the size of their pay roles, and basically pocket the money.
Tests are to discover failures but there is a difference between and handful of stations not getting it right across the country and needing to remediate those and wide spread failures by major carriers being the mode of the outcome.
I call BS. I bet you more choices than that. I can almost say with certainly someone else can get you DSL access, even if it is using AT&T physical lines. I bet you can find one who will do it without PPOE and with favorable service terms as far as hosting as well.
Oh you are going to cry but I don't want pay $60+ for 1.5Mbit/384Kbps, Comcast and AT&T will sell me 20Mbps/15Mbps for that. Well yes they will but along with their caps, throttling, and other BS.
What most people really mean is I want first class service for Comcrap and AT&T'edoffs third rate service prices.
Birth Control is not the answer, at least not the answer without some interim steps in between. Maybe you had not noticed but large western societies are PAYING women to have children now. Why? Because all non-command, and most of the command economies I am aware of are pretty much predicated on the a population demographic which assumes there will always be more young people then older ones.
Even when its not enshrined in law or institution it exists implicitly in children taking care of their aged parents. This is even more important in the third world than in the first as the third world lacks the built up wealth and infrastructure to consume temporarily deal with the problem.
If you start inverting the population in some of these places you will simply turn the desperately poor, into the starving to death.
Okay smarty pants, now imagine your home NAT is behind a NAT your ISP is running, which probably uses and address pool rather than a single address. They won't forward ports for your because that is all they'd do all day, if they did and tricks like hole punching and STUN won't work reliably because there is nothing to ensure a new connections have the same visible source address on the *real* Internet.
Also NAT is not security at all at least in the PC world, as I can get you to make an outbound connection to me, lots of ways.
You are right about all of that. Trouble is why that may be satisfying in nerd world, it holds little water in practical world.
Its well known that many spammers do abuse the unsubscribe links. They either just use it to verify your address is real continue to send the same crap, or they use it verify the address is real, "unsubscribe" from their Homeopathic Viagraaaa mailing list and add you to their Homeopathic Cialisss mailing list, along with 15 others and to their database of validated address they sell to other spammers. That is what happens.
With that in mind yes, you might be able to sue them breech, the latter senerio being a little more difficult to prove if you do; coupled with the problem that it does nothing about the other 96% of the SMTP traffic you got which is also SPAM.
Except that oil vilified as it is now the only thing disrupting the carbon cycle. The burning of wood for fuel and related deforestation either for fuel or agricultural reasons is a major major contributor.
Many third worlders have a carbon foot print bigger than westerners if you factor the hill sides they burned to plant crop on soil that really can't support them anyway. On the flip side the amount of forested land in the USA has increased over the past 100 years! Poverty not affluence is what creates environmental crisis.
25% of the income derived from the work. Register your photo collection or GPL software if you want it protected by copyright. If you are not charging for it, or not even making it available for that matter -- your tax obligation should be pretty affordable. 25% of nothing but one quarter of NOTHING.
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Axing the project and starting afresh would set everything back, and be tremendously expensive - so the F35 project has to work at this point, cost overruns or not.
That is not the right way to look at it. The question is not how far behind are we already, or what have we already spent. Time and money once used are gone you can't get them back. The valid questions are: Do we still need the project? Can we finish the project for less time, less money or both, than starting over with the benefit of the knowledge we have now? If we start over and make some different choice is any of the work done so far salvageable for the new project?
It says its easier to imagine on the billions of little chemical interactions required to give rise to complex life forms, could and have occurred some place else, or that God an omnipotent being exits and created a second group of intelligent beings take your pick. After all that you have to imagine those people were able to solve the seemingly impossible challenges of physics get from where they are across the vast cosmos to come here.
You know what now that I think on it a little bit that is all way more plausible than 535 people we have in Congress being as inept as they apparently are.
has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet
I think we spent huge piles of tax dollars in order to get all excited that there was evidence of both water and bateria on Mars?
If the White House can't get basic facts strait about recent and very public scientific develops, why should we take the rest of their response seriously. Its not like this is Slashdot we are talking about here with its lack of editing, these are professional publicity people who don't make mistakes and obvious omissions.
The copyright owner has always born the cost of enforcement, or at least detection of infringement and that is fair because they are the ones deriving the benefit from the protection copyright offers them.
Its not like service providers and site operators are not burdened by compliance with all those take down requests. It cuts both ways. The content industry as usual wants a free ride.
So I say we as a society offer them this: Service providers,site operators, and individuals will be responsible for being able to show they rights to publish or reproduce anything they do. The content industry will lose implicit copyright. In other words if you don't explicitly file for copyright its public domain; and you PAY in taxes to hold a copyright every year, at the end of the year. Lets set that one at about 25% of net income derived from the work; to put it inline with capital gains.
I think that is sorta the point about why everyone is so fascinated in a sense. Steve was pretty much just a salesman, but he might well be the best one since Carnegie, who was a great deal more than just a salesman.
What is really driving everyone crazy is most people don't think qualities like, demanding, exacting, difficult to work with, are commonly associated with salesmen. He certainly had some qualities like intensity and passion that are but Steve did it different. I have no personal love for the man or Apple but I am still interested.
You are right, but those fee structures DO allow you to avoid the fees if you are careful. You have to be paying attention, vigilant, proactive and ever watchful. Pro-activity is important as well.
I am CERTAIN these guys play with dates they mail invoices, statements and such, they always seems to arrive either way ahead of the due date like 2 weeks, or near enough that if you don't open the mail every day its going to be late payment. This will vary widely form month to month with the same provider. You'd better pick up the phone and all them to get the balance a know what size check to write the instant you think, I should have seen a statement by now. Its coming but it show up in the mail a day before its due.
The only way to handle this is with a computer accounting package that tracks events and understands things like 28-day billing cycles. The other "losers" who bank their wind up paying those fees because they don't use things like Money, Quicken, HomeBank, etc. There is a rent to be extracted from those "losers" but it takes real work to get it.
It really does not matter. If the retail level bank industry can't get away with charging fees they will just keep paying no interest on deposits forever. Honestly ATM and even Debit card fees are not that big a deal, and are mostly avoidable with a little planing. I can't remember the last time I used an ATM, and you can generally get cash back from Grocery stores and pharmacies when you make a purchase with a check. The banks don't charge for electronic payments.
I'd rather get paid a little extra interest on my cash balance, subsidized by my can't be bothered to plan fellow citizens.
With a little thought and good habits you can make a $10 box of checks last a long long time, and manage to put enough cash in your pocket for other needs as well without using a debit card or visiting the bank. Finally get a credit card with some type of rewards program that is useful to you! I am not saying carry a balance, ( I never do ) but you really should use it for any purchase you can. You get both the protection of being able to do a charge back if the provider does not deliver, and you get the rewards. The rewards are not much as a percentage but if you deliberately pay everything you possibly can with the card they do add up!
The debit card offers exactly nothing over a credit card in 99% of situations. Unless your credit is so terrible you can't get a CC with a useable limit, WHY would you ever debit anything?
You know though if any of those companies took the moral highroad and said "no" someone else would just do it. This is one of the VERY VERY few cases were government should act.
By act I mean pass very simple regulations that stipulate you can't sell shit to anyone on the rogue state list. Going through an intermediary does not work either, if knowing sell to someone who is likely to redistribute the goods to a rogue state, you still responsible. Then you add some punitive fines that don't go so earmarked nonsense but to the general treasury.
This author is an idiot. The underlying technology that really enables Siri (which does not actually work very well in my experience) is language processing not speech recognition. Google already has speech to text software. Google voice does that, today. Can it run on phone I don't know but I am sure the engineers at Google can figure that one out. Its obviously an achievable goal Apple having done it.
Language processing is something Google actually excels at. That little search box of theirs is pretty smart as it is. There were plenty of things query processing experiments in Google Labs as well before that went away. Google is not starting out in the woods with charcoal, timber, iron ore, and stone trying to figure out how build steam locomotive. They mostly just need to create a mashup of things they already have; I don't think its any two years. It might take them as little as two months with a truly concerted effort. Which is not say they actually will do that, just that if having a answer to Siri is something they really see as important, they could.
I am sorry but you seem to have no concept how upper management really thinks. I have worked from a number of companies in different industries of different sizes. The one constant thing is management sees exactly four classes of employee. Those are C-Level executives and possibly department or subsidiary presidents in the org is big enough, Salaried workers, hourly workers, and sales.
If you are one of those salary workers, they do want you as efficient as possibly but they are not going to take risks for it. If say IT won't let me read my mail on the bus, and they ask us why not, and we respond with the least bit plausible example of how it could cause customer data, or trade secrets, or anything else the might result in asterisks on the financial statements you loose. You after all can always put in a little extra time if you can't be more efficient but a trade secret once out cannot be recovered.
Now if you are sales, that different you drive profit, otherwise you are overhead just like IT and if you cry about it they will just find someone who wont.
Most of the "comprehensive MDM platforms" have holes you can drive big rig through on anything not BlackBerry. The ones that don't like Good for example rely on containerization. Which is fine, but does not provide the end user experience you'd really want.
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Not hard foryblibrertariam brain at all. I don't have have to have to agree with the economic ideas the OWS group has to take their civil liberties seriously! Give some of us a little credit for being more complicated than "taser the hippies".
Finally us libertarians might even suggest that it's dangerous to have such a well equipped police force, they certainly don't need these tools to walk a beat and prevent most crime! As a libertarian I am more outraged at this than most!
You only feel that way because you have been propagandized from birth. Look nobody should want to live in a world run by pirates, in cannons on stolen ships lets kill people and steal their stuff, sense. That world of might makes right sucks, want to know what can be worse than that? A world run by tyrants.
Our Western republics are day by day being taken over by small group or ruling oligarchs with tyrannical and authoritarian ideas on dictating your life cradle to grave, and you shot at becoming one of them is growing smaller by the hour as they slam the latches on your shackles closed. I was listening to the radio this morning and in the context of another story the speaker matter of factly stated many young Italians will never have a steady job!
Wow you know what the means it means they will always be in debt and always depend on hand outs, by extension following some process to get those handouts, and having to empower the people who give them those hand outs even at the cost of their opportunity to perhaps eventually not need them. They will never know independence; Its a kinder gentler form of SLAVERY.
With tyrants if you stand up you will be crushed, well unless you lead a successful revolution. With pirates, if you take a shot odds are you will be killed but you are little more likely to prevail than against an installed tyrant. Best part is if you win against a pirate you are the new pirate king (little K).
I'd take Pirates over the current world leadership, if asked to make a choice.
Umm, Joins can be done in parallel, in lots and lots of cases. ERP and CRP are applications that ought to see big improvements form more cores, if you have more than a few users anyway. It also simplifies things, you don't have to figure out how to architect the thing to run across 10 hosts anymore, good multi-core systems deliver there performance these apps need if you can get the disk IO solved. A good SAN with mutlipath support and multiple HBAs can get there.
Niagara failed because each individual core was too slow, a comparable cost Intel CPU could do in serial with one core two jobs, in less time than Niagara could do one job with on core. The question is here for most paralleled work loads like a database where all cores will be used are AMDs 16 core chips at least 62% the speed of Intel's 10 core chips on core vs. core basis? If true other things being equal for *some* work loads these Opterons will be better.
Cheap tickets! I can hardly think of consumer good that has inflated in price as much as move tickets have over the past decade.
You could argue that but I would shoot back that it's really a tax break for every individual with a job. The very wealthy would be getting a refund as wellhid they have any salary, but the Buffets of the world get most of there income classified as unearned so it would be a smaller financial event in their context.
The stupidity of tax breaks to corps and the wealthy as job stimulus is that corps don't hire unless there is demand for their products. In a recession what you have as the prevailing economic environment is low demand and excess capacity.
BINGO!
What we should have done rather than the Economic Recovery Act would have been simple refund 100% of everyone's individual income tax on the earned portion of the their income and allow them to keep the earned income tax credit. That would have put heaps of money in the hands of the middle class and provided a nice pay day to the working poor as well.
That would have spread the money around and forced the corporations and banks to *DO* some economic activity to get hold of it. That would have created JOBS, and secured American house holds by reducing debts, might have lifted real estate prices a little, and replaced all kinds of durable goods.
By injecting the money at the top instead the bottom it just let the usual rent-seeking a-holes abuse their cozy relationships to snatch those government contracts, over charge, under deliver, pace the work slowly enough that they need not increase the size of their pay roles, and basically pocket the money.
Tests are to discover failures but there is a difference between and handful of stations not getting it right across the country and needing to remediate those and wide spread failures by major carriers being the mode of the outcome.
I call BS. I bet you more choices than that. I can almost say with certainly someone else can get you DSL access, even if it is using AT&T physical lines. I bet you can find one who will do it without PPOE and with favorable service terms as far as hosting as well.
Oh you are going to cry but I don't want pay $60+ for 1.5Mbit/384Kbps, Comcast and AT&T will sell me 20Mbps/15Mbps for that. Well yes they will but along with their caps, throttling, and other BS.
What most people really mean is I want first class service for Comcrap and AT&T'edoffs third rate service prices.
Birth Control is not the answer, at least not the answer without some interim steps in between. Maybe you had not noticed but large western societies are PAYING women to have children now. Why? Because all non-command, and most of the command economies I am aware of are pretty much predicated on the a population demographic which assumes there will always be more young people then older ones.
Even when its not enshrined in law or institution it exists implicitly in children taking care of their aged parents. This is even more important in the third world than in the first as the third world lacks the built up wealth and infrastructure to consume temporarily deal with the problem.
If you start inverting the population in some of these places you will simply turn the desperately poor, into the starving to death.
Okay smarty pants, now imagine your home NAT is behind a NAT your ISP is running, which probably uses and address pool rather than a single address. They won't forward ports for your because that is all they'd do all day, if they did and tricks like hole punching and STUN won't work reliably because there is nothing to ensure a new connections have the same visible source address on the *real* Internet.
Also NAT is not security at all at least in the PC world, as I can get you to make an outbound connection to me, lots of ways.
You are right about all of that. Trouble is why that may be satisfying in nerd world, it holds little water in practical world.
Its well known that many spammers do abuse the unsubscribe links. They either just use it to verify your address is real continue to send the same crap, or they use it verify the address is real, "unsubscribe" from their Homeopathic Viagraaaa mailing list and add you to their Homeopathic Cialisss mailing list, along with 15 others and to their database of validated address they sell to other spammers. That is what happens.
With that in mind yes, you might be able to sue them breech, the latter senerio being a little more difficult to prove if you do; coupled with the problem that it does nothing about the other 96% of the SMTP traffic you got which is also SPAM.
Except that oil vilified as it is now the only thing disrupting the carbon cycle. The burning of wood for fuel and related deforestation either for fuel or agricultural reasons is a major major contributor.
Many third worlders have a carbon foot print bigger than westerners if you factor the hill sides they burned to plant crop on soil that really can't support them anyway. On the flip side the amount of forested land in the USA has increased over the past 100 years! Poverty not affluence is what creates environmental crisis.
25% of the income derived from the work. Register your photo collection or GPL software if you want it protected by copyright. If you are not charging for it, or not even making it available for that matter -- your tax obligation should be pretty affordable. 25% of nothing but one quarter of NOTHING.
Axing the project and starting afresh would set everything back, and be tremendously expensive - so the F35 project has to work at this point, cost overruns or not.
That is not the right way to look at it. The question is not how far behind are we already, or what have we already spent. Time and money once used are gone you can't get them back. The valid questions are:
Do we still need the project?
Can we finish the project for less time, less money or both, than starting over with the benefit of the knowledge we have now?
If we start over and make some different choice is any of the work done so far salvageable for the new project?
It says its easier to imagine on the billions of little chemical interactions required to give rise to complex life forms, could and have occurred some place else, or that God an omnipotent being exits and created a second group of intelligent beings take your pick. After all that you have to imagine those people were able to solve the seemingly impossible challenges of physics get from where they are across the vast cosmos to come here.
You know what now that I think on it a little bit that is all way more plausible than 535 people we have in Congress being as inept as they apparently are.
has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet
I think we spent huge piles of tax dollars in order to get all excited that there was evidence of both water and bateria on Mars?
If the White House can't get basic facts strait about recent and very public scientific develops, why should we take the rest of their response seriously. Its not like this is Slashdot we are talking about here with its lack of editing, these are professional publicity people who don't make mistakes and obvious omissions.
I think they should call it the "The F.U.D" and have a multiple accepted expansions for the acronym.
Fear and Uncertainty Department ...
Fundamentally Unnecessary Department
Federal Unchecked Discretion
F**ked Up Department
The copyright owner has always born the cost of enforcement, or at least detection of infringement and that is fair because they are the ones deriving the benefit from the protection copyright offers them.
Its not like service providers and site operators are not burdened by compliance with all those take down requests. It cuts both ways. The content industry as usual wants a free ride.
So I say we as a society offer them this: Service providers,site operators, and individuals will be responsible for being able to show they rights to publish or reproduce anything they do. The content industry will lose implicit copyright. In other words if you don't explicitly file for copyright its public domain; and you PAY in taxes to hold a copyright every year, at the end of the year. Lets set that one at about 25% of net income derived from the work; to put it inline with capital gains.
I bet the quit asking.
I think that is sorta the point about why everyone is so fascinated in a sense. Steve was pretty much just a salesman, but he might well be the best one since Carnegie, who was a great deal more than just a salesman.
What is really driving everyone crazy is most people don't think qualities like, demanding, exacting, difficult to work with, are commonly associated with salesmen. He certainly had some qualities like intensity and passion that are but Steve did it different. I have no personal love for the man or Apple but I am still interested.
You are right, but those fee structures DO allow you to avoid the fees if you are careful. You have to be paying attention, vigilant, proactive and ever watchful. Pro-activity is important as well.
I am CERTAIN these guys play with dates they mail invoices, statements and such, they always seems to arrive either way ahead of the due date like 2 weeks, or near enough that if you don't open the mail every day its going to be late payment. This will vary widely form month to month with the same provider. You'd better pick up the phone and all them to get the balance a know what size check to write the instant you think, I should have seen a statement by now. Its coming but it show up in the mail a day before its due.
The only way to handle this is with a computer accounting package that tracks events and understands things like 28-day billing cycles. The other "losers" who bank their wind up paying those fees because they don't use things like Money, Quicken, HomeBank, etc. There is a rent to be extracted from those "losers" but it takes real work to get it.
It really does not matter. If the retail level bank industry can't get away with charging fees they will just keep paying no interest on deposits forever. Honestly ATM and even Debit card fees are not that big a deal, and are mostly avoidable with a little planing. I can't remember the last time I used an ATM, and you can generally get cash back from Grocery stores and pharmacies when you make a purchase with a check. The banks don't charge for electronic payments.
I'd rather get paid a little extra interest on my cash balance, subsidized by my can't be bothered to plan fellow citizens.
With a little thought and good habits you can make a $10 box of checks last a long long time, and manage to put enough cash in your pocket for other needs as well without using a debit card or visiting the bank. Finally get a credit card with some type of rewards program that is useful to you! I am not saying carry a balance, ( I never do ) but you really should use it for any purchase you can. You get both the protection of being able to do a charge back if the provider does not deliver, and you get the rewards. The rewards are not much as a percentage but if you deliberately pay everything you possibly can with the card they do add up!
The debit card offers exactly nothing over a credit card in 99% of situations. Unless your credit is so terrible you can't get a CC with a useable limit, WHY would you ever debit anything?
You know though if any of those companies took the moral highroad and said "no" someone else would just do it. This is one of the VERY VERY few cases were government should act.
By act I mean pass very simple regulations that stipulate you can't sell shit to anyone on the rogue state list. Going through an intermediary does not work either, if knowing sell to someone who is likely to redistribute the goods to a rogue state, you still responsible. Then you add some punitive fines that don't go so earmarked nonsense but to the general treasury.
This author is an idiot. The underlying technology that really enables Siri (which does not actually work very well in my experience) is language processing not speech recognition. Google already has speech to text software. Google voice does that, today. Can it run on phone I don't know but I am sure the engineers at Google can figure that one out. Its obviously an achievable goal Apple having done it.
Language processing is something Google actually excels at. That little search box of theirs is pretty smart as it is. There were plenty of things query processing experiments in Google Labs as well before that went away. Google is not starting out in the woods with charcoal, timber, iron ore, and stone trying to figure out how build steam locomotive. They mostly just need to create a mashup of things they already have; I don't think its any two years. It might take them as little as two months with a truly concerted effort. Which is not say they actually will do that, just that if having a answer to Siri is something they really see as important, they could.
I am sorry but you seem to have no concept how upper management really thinks. I have worked from a number of companies in different industries of different sizes. The one constant thing is management sees exactly four classes of employee. Those are C-Level executives and possibly department or subsidiary presidents in the org is big enough, Salaried workers, hourly workers, and sales.
If you are one of those salary workers, they do want you as efficient as possibly but they are not going to take risks for it. If say IT won't let me read my mail on the bus, and they ask us why not, and we respond with the least bit plausible example of how it could cause customer data, or trade secrets, or anything else the might result in asterisks on the financial statements you loose. You after all can always put in a little extra time if you can't be more efficient but a trade secret once out cannot be recovered.
Now if you are sales, that different you drive profit, otherwise you are overhead just like IT and if you cry about it they will just find someone who wont.
Most of the "comprehensive MDM platforms" have holes you can drive big rig through on anything not BlackBerry. The ones that don't like Good for example rely on containerization. Which is fine, but does not provide the end user experience you'd really want.