All of the national drug store change have computer systems that record the perscriptions they've filled for a given person, and will kick and scream when an undesirable interaction will occur between the previous perscriptions and the new one. So long as you use the same drug store chain for all your medications, you should be well protected.
It used to be that each town had their own "official clock" for the town, kept usually at Town Hall or the biggest employeer, and all other clocks in that town were synced to that master clock. At that point, as you moved east or west the times between the towns would change gradually based on how far apart they were. Basically, there were an infinite number of time zones.
It wasn't until trains came along that "railroad time" became an issue... and the rest is history. Instead of having analog accuracy in our time zones anymore, we've gone digital.
Saying that a 700MHz Mac is tolerable these days is to say like the 1-2+GHz Microsoft boxes are wasting somewhere along the lines of 25-40% of their processor time?
Has MS Bloatware gotten that bad?
Blackhole lists right now focus on the open relays. Why not focus on the original spammers themselves? Becuase the SMTP protocol doesn't allow for it.
The fact is, you can put whatever addresses you want into the From: and Reply To: fields. There is no accountablity to assure that the return addresses are owned by the person who sent the message, or even that such addresses even exist.
If mail servers were required to "stand behind" the messages that they sent, receiving server can call back the sending server, basically to ask "Did you really send that?" If the server denies sending the message, or the server doesn't exist in the first place, the message gets canceled and is never delivered to the named user.
This would end the cloak of invisiblity for the spammers. They'd have to either use a traceable user account at their ISP, or spam only from their own domain. No traceroute required, an autheticated username and domain show up in the From: line.
This would cut down the collateral damage, because instead of blocking by IP address or netblock, the block would be by username and/or domain. What's more, really reputable ISPs could kill most of the spam in the time delay between the sending and the reading, as it would simply be able to refuse to authenticate the messages after being told they were spam. If the ISP doesn't, a retroactive black hole can lock out offending user accounts without having to lock out whole domains, unless it is determined that the domain belongs not to a multi-user ISP but a single-user spammer.
The problem is, "Microsoft Windows" is a clearly valid trademark, but "Windows" is not.
Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Royal Crown Cola, and Sam's Choice Cola are allowed to co-exist because "cola" is a generic word. Everybody has added words before the word "cola" to their name so that they are identified.
What Lindows is claiming is that the word "windows" is a generic term that is used to describe a rectanglar program box in other operating systems, therefore making it a generic. In fact, Microsoft has a weak claim on even being able to show that they were the first to use "windows" in that context, since window-based operating systems existed before Microsoft Windows did.
Mindshare in the public is a non-issue. It's Microsoft's fault for choosing a name that was to close to the generic. If they want to distance themselves from Lindows, they're the ones who have to pay the cost to change their own identity.
Yeah, this company is being opportunists... but Microsoft made the mistake it too to leave that opportunity open.
The problem I saw in high school, where as a tech-knowing student they gave me some administrative responsibility over a computer lab, was that far too often the teachers would not know what they were doing with the Internet, so they would just bring their class in and tell them to go explore. That never worked right.
Much better lessions in that same lab happened when the teacher had come into the lab the afternoon before and with my help or somebody else's came up with a list of the five most authoritative sites on the subject matter that teacher was teaching that day. Armed with that list, the students then had their choice of five good starting points, from which they could then surf out using the links given by those authoritative sites. Those students always came up with more useful research.
Teachers have a hard time teaching students how to effectively use the Internet because there are many teachers out there who don't know how to do so for themselves.
First, your $20 becoming worth $5 prediction means you are calling for 300% inflation over the next decade... that's a tall order.
Second, assuming that situation does play out, what's to say gold would continue to maintain its value? Who would be willing to buy gold in such a situation?
They can predict using other histories and a small bit of data about the new store.
Here's how it works... they already have your book and CD data, along with everybody else's. When somebody who has bought a Britney Spears album buys Levi's Jeans, it can cross link Britney with Levi's. Anybody else who has bought Britney music in the past is now presumed to like Levi's jeans as a result, until other data comes along to contradict that.
Yeah, the initial predictions will be wildly inaccurate, but quickly they will amass the base data with which to get some close-enough returns.
One little piece of info Amazon had better be quickly figuring out... which users are boys and which are girls.
Helping, yes. You can be a contractor who gets paid less than minimum wage or even zero.
However, if you act like an employee (Work at times of their choosing, not your own, use mostly their equipment instead of mostly your equipment, create IP that they own rather than IP that you own and let them borrow, etc.) then you are an employee. No agreement can change that.
Interns: 1. Are getting credit from a credible academic institution. 2. Rarely work a full 40 hour work week, afterall, they're in school and likely have classes to attend too. (If they are working a 40 hour work week, it's the summer so point 3 becomes even more acute.) 3. Work only for a limited short ammount of time. When the internship is over with, they either have to offer to pay the kid, or start over with a new intern who doesn't know the place yet.
Sorry, interns must be getting academic credit from a respectiblely accredited institution in order to qualify qualify to get out of the minimum wage laws.
Which means the original poster is owed some money from his employer. If he leaves the job for any reason before the statue of limitations law is up, he should collect.
If the dollar becomes worthless, gold is not a winner.
You see, the concept of law requires that there be law enforcement. If the U.S. Dollar were to become absolutely worthless, then the police and justice systems will break down. Government employees are paid in dollars, which means they will not work unless they think that their pay is worth something. If that system ever breaks down, then gold and land become worthless, brute force will be the only thing of value left. Gold is only valuable when there's something protecting you from people who want to steal it from you.
The fact is, the US Government is never going to let that situation play out. They have enough economic tools, including the ability to do crazy things with the interest rates, hire people to work on make-work public works projects, and tax any behavior they want to. The New Deal did it all once, and the government hasn't even come close to tapping that kind of power yet.
The only situation where gold becomes king is the one where the United States has failed to preserve the value of the Dollar. If that can't be done, you have much more serious problems to worry about other than the price of gold.
If I was on benefits would I risk it? No...Not in my opinion. Most people will end up losing more than they gain and some companies will even be closed due to being sued out of existance...
Such as when the first "volunteer" breaks rank and sues for his minimum wage payments for time worked. Sorry, agreements that involve breaking the law will not be recognized by the court.
If a company can't afford the local minimum wage, it's not gonna last.
If you're going to work for free for a startup, make it one you own outright.
That's what I'm working on. A.com project that likely will never turn a profit... but I'm seriously working on it, and eventually I will have something web-visible to show for my effort. Fills in the black time hole in my resume, and if this is lucky enough to ever bring in money, that money will be mine, all mine.
He should be arrested. He's just as bad as Microsoft. By working for free (which is illegal for the company to have accepted) he has locked out all of the competitors for that job who aren't able to undercut free.
Minimum wage. It's not just a good idea. It's the law.
The article points this out. There are minimum wage laws. You CANNOT legally pay an employee strictly with stock options, or even stock. You have to give him at least the state minimum wage in spendable money.
You cannot agree to be an independant contractor and then behave like an employee. If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck in this case. If you behave like an employee (go to work at the hours they appoint, use their equipment and not yours, etc.) they cannot file a 1099 form and say that makes you a contractor... it just means they've filled out the wrong form.
Wrong. It means if you didn't build a fence high enough or far enough away from your window so that brick throwers cannot reach it, you are at risk to brick-throwing attacks.
The fact that brick-throwing attacks are illegal will not protect you from one very well if somebody is resolved to perpitrate one.
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Mods, make up your mind... this is showing as a +2 Troll at the moment!
Yes he can. We do a question thread, the editors pick the ten questions and send them to Darci. She can then print the questions, hand them to him, and he can write out his replies. She can then type them into the her computer and send them back to Slashdot.
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All of the national drug store change have computer systems that record the perscriptions they've filled for a given person, and will kick and scream when an undesirable interaction will occur between the previous perscriptions and the new one. So long as you use the same drug store chain for all your medications, you should be well protected.
The robot is less likely to make that mistake than humans.
Gotta ask, any Y2K+3 bugs showing up over there that we should be worried about?
More or less that's true.
It used to be that each town had their own "official clock" for the town, kept usually at Town Hall or the biggest employeer, and all other clocks in that town were synced to that master clock. At that point, as you moved east or west the times between the towns would change gradually based on how far apart they were. Basically, there were an infinite number of time zones.
It wasn't until trains came along that "railroad time" became an issue... and the rest is history. Instead of having analog accuracy in our time zones anymore, we've gone digital.
Given the way this year went, wouldn't "2002 bytes" be better?
Saying that a 700MHz Mac is tolerable these days is to say like the 1-2+GHz Microsoft boxes are wasting somewhere along the lines of 25-40% of their processor time? Has MS Bloatware gotten that bad?
Blackhole lists right now focus on the open relays. Why not focus on the original spammers themselves? Becuase the SMTP protocol doesn't allow for it. The fact is, you can put whatever addresses you want into the From: and Reply To: fields. There is no accountablity to assure that the return addresses are owned by the person who sent the message, or even that such addresses even exist. If mail servers were required to "stand behind" the messages that they sent, receiving server can call back the sending server, basically to ask "Did you really send that?" If the server denies sending the message, or the server doesn't exist in the first place, the message gets canceled and is never delivered to the named user. This would end the cloak of invisiblity for the spammers. They'd have to either use a traceable user account at their ISP, or spam only from their own domain. No traceroute required, an autheticated username and domain show up in the From: line. This would cut down the collateral damage, because instead of blocking by IP address or netblock, the block would be by username and/or domain. What's more, really reputable ISPs could kill most of the spam in the time delay between the sending and the reading, as it would simply be able to refuse to authenticate the messages after being told they were spam. If the ISP doesn't, a retroactive black hole can lock out offending user accounts without having to lock out whole domains, unless it is determined that the domain belongs not to a multi-user ISP but a single-user spammer.
Imposible to say, because the undiscovered glitch is both unexploited and unpatched.
The question really comes, does the discovery of the glitch come from the exploters or the patchers first?
A further clue that this can't be serious...
A guy named "David" runs a group whose name starts "Mothers Against..."
The problem is, "Microsoft Windows" is a clearly valid trademark, but "Windows" is not.
Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Royal Crown Cola, and Sam's Choice Cola are allowed to co-exist because "cola" is a generic word. Everybody has added words before the word "cola" to their name so that they are identified.
What Lindows is claiming is that the word "windows" is a generic term that is used to describe a rectanglar program box in other operating systems, therefore making it a generic. In fact, Microsoft has a weak claim on even being able to show that they were the first to use "windows" in that context, since window-based operating systems existed before Microsoft Windows did.
Mindshare in the public is a non-issue. It's Microsoft's fault for choosing a name that was to close to the generic. If they want to distance themselves from Lindows, they're the ones who have to pay the cost to change their own identity.
Yeah, this company is being opportunists... but Microsoft made the mistake it too to leave that opportunity open.
The problem I saw in high school, where as a tech-knowing student they gave me some administrative responsibility over a computer lab, was that far too often the teachers would not know what they were doing with the Internet, so they would just bring their class in and tell them to go explore. That never worked right.
Much better lessions in that same lab happened when the teacher had come into the lab the afternoon before and with my help or somebody else's came up with a list of the five most authoritative sites on the subject matter that teacher was teaching that day. Armed with that list, the students then had their choice of five good starting points, from which they could then surf out using the links given by those authoritative sites. Those students always came up with more useful research.
Teachers have a hard time teaching students how to effectively use the Internet because there are many teachers out there who don't know how to do so for themselves.
First, your $20 becoming worth $5 prediction means you are calling for 300% inflation over the next decade... that's a tall order.
Second, assuming that situation does play out, what's to say gold would continue to maintain its value? Who would be willing to buy gold in such a situation?
They can predict using other histories and a small bit of data about the new store.
Here's how it works... they already have your book and CD data, along with everybody else's. When somebody who has bought a Britney Spears album buys Levi's Jeans, it can cross link Britney with Levi's. Anybody else who has bought Britney music in the past is now presumed to like Levi's jeans as a result, until other data comes along to contradict that.
Yeah, the initial predictions will be wildly inaccurate, but quickly they will amass the base data with which to get some close-enough returns.
One little piece of info Amazon had better be quickly figuring out... which users are boys and which are girls.
Helping, yes. You can be a contractor who gets paid less than minimum wage or even zero. However, if you act like an employee (Work at times of their choosing, not your own, use mostly their equipment instead of mostly your equipment, create IP that they own rather than IP that you own and let them borrow, etc.) then you are an employee. No agreement can change that.
Interns:
1. Are getting credit from a credible academic institution.
2. Rarely work a full 40 hour work week, afterall, they're in school and likely have classes to attend too. (If they are working a 40 hour work week, it's the summer so point 3 becomes even more acute.)
3. Work only for a limited short ammount of time. When the internship is over with, they either have to offer to pay the kid, or start over with a new intern who doesn't know the place yet.
Sorry, interns must be getting academic credit from a respectiblely accredited institution in order to qualify qualify to get out of the minimum wage laws.
Which means the original poster is owed some money from his employer. If he leaves the job for any reason before the statue of limitations law is up, he should collect.
If the dollar becomes worthless, gold is not a winner.
You see, the concept of law requires that there be law enforcement. If the U.S. Dollar were to become absolutely worthless, then the police and justice systems will break down. Government employees are paid in dollars, which means they will not work unless they think that their pay is worth something. If that system ever breaks down, then gold and land become worthless, brute force will be the only thing of value left. Gold is only valuable when there's something protecting you from people who want to steal it from you.
The fact is, the US Government is never going to let that situation play out. They have enough economic tools, including the ability to do crazy things with the interest rates, hire people to work on make-work public works projects, and tax any behavior they want to. The New Deal did it all once, and the government hasn't even come close to tapping that kind of power yet.
The only situation where gold becomes king is the one where the United States has failed to preserve the value of the Dollar. If that can't be done, you have much more serious problems to worry about other than the price of gold.
If I was on benefits would I risk it? No...Not in my opinion. Most people will end up losing more than they gain and some companies will even be closed due to being sued out of existance...
Such as when the first "volunteer" breaks rank and sues for his minimum wage payments for time worked. Sorry, agreements that involve breaking the law will not be recognized by the court.
If a company can't afford the local minimum wage, it's not gonna last.
If you're going to work for free for a startup, make it one you own outright.
.com project that likely will never turn a profit... but I'm seriously working on it, and eventually I will have something web-visible to show for my effort. Fills in the black time hole in my resume, and if this is lucky enough to ever bring in money, that money will be mine, all mine.
That's what I'm working on. A
He should be arrested. He's just as bad as Microsoft. By working for free (which is illegal for the company to have accepted) he has locked out all of the competitors for that job who aren't able to undercut free.
Minimum wage. It's not just a good idea. It's the law.
The article points this out. There are minimum wage laws. You CANNOT legally pay an employee strictly with stock options, or even stock. You have to give him at least the state minimum wage in spendable money.
You cannot agree to be an independant contractor and then behave like an employee. If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck in this case. If you behave like an employee (go to work at the hours they appoint, use their equipment and not yours, etc.) they cannot file a 1099 form and say that makes you a contractor... it just means they've filled out the wrong form.
Wrong. It means if you didn't build a fence high enough or far enough away from your window so that brick throwers cannot reach it, you are at risk to brick-throwing attacks.
The fact that brick-throwing attacks are illegal will not protect you from one very well if somebody is resolved to perpitrate one.
Mods, make up your mind... this is showing as a +2 Troll at the moment!
Darci's his gf... trust me, we would have read about any proposal in her blog by now.
Yes he can. We do a question thread, the editors pick the ten questions and send them to Darci. She can then print the questions, hand them to him, and he can write out his replies. She can then type them into the her computer and send them back to Slashdot.