Code signing is just a money making scheme for Microsoft cleverly disguised as a protective measure for us users. Smaller projects can not afford to have their code digitally signed by Microsoft. People have been writing workarounds for this involving spoofing the driver as being in TEST mode, but this is a hassle for the end user.
Someone who makes his living helping others cheat is surprised at how rampant cheating is. Is a gas station owner also surprised that most everyone that comes to his store is looking for gas?
You would be stupid to sign such a contract, however.
Stupid or desperate, I agree. However, in almost every case where someone is signing such a contract, there is literally no alternative. Would you just not go to college, because all of the colleges have this phrasing in their IT contracts? Would you not buy a cell phone because all of the cell phone companies have this phrasing in their contracts? Would you not receive power from the electric company, not receive gas from the gas company, not work for almost any employer?
At some point, the courts need to step up and realize that these contracts can not be binding when the agreeing party has no recourse other than to do without said service. In the case of IT at a university, they almost certainly REQUIRE you to have internet access, and if you are in the dorms, it MUST be provided by them, so it ought to be ILLEGAL to make you sign a ToS that they can change at any time.
Wow, I got modded "flamebait". Amazing.
Yes, because your opinion differs from the groupthink that entertainment ought to be free. Since there is no "disagree" moderation, they incorrectly use flamebait instead.
Now let's see what is the average country ratio of employers to employees ? 1 to 1000 doesn't sound unreasonable - which group should the government be protecting here ?
There are over 31 million businesses in the U.S. That represents a less than 1 to 5 employer to employee ratio. The vast majority of these are small businesses. Small businesses make up 80% of our workforce and are the backbone of our economy. While many of the laws that are proposed seem good because they are going to stick it to the rich businessman, they real fact is that the rich businessman is largely insulated from most of these laws, and what the laws really do is hurt the small businessman, and therefore, hurt our economy.
In all of the states that I am aware of, the exact opposite is true. Most states are at-will and they can fire you for any reason or no reason. In fact, it makes more sense for them to fire you for NO reason. If they have a reason, then you might be able to take them to court and prove them wrong or sue them for discrimination.
You're not supposed to save for your retirement for a few years, you're supposed to start when you're 20. Historically, the stock market performs at better than 10% over the long haul.
So who do you think is going to look after you when you're eighty?
I will do my best to take care of myself, however, it won't be easy since the government is trying to take care of me. They want to take X amount out of my paycheck and then 30 years from now when it is worth 5X, they will give me back 1/2X to pay for my medical bills.
This all resulted from people not saving enough money to take care of themselves and socialists decided that the government needs to save for us. When the government saves for us, it underperforms inflation, let alone the stock market.
...laptops are called laptops because you can put them on top of your lap. I never realized that was why they were called that since no human being has ever put one on their lap before this study.
Do you want to pay ten times as much for a routine medical procedure as someone that has insurance?
Certainly not! And I don't. I have a $5,000 deductible. When I go to the doctor, I present my insurance, they bill the insurance company 1 bazillion dollars, and the insurance company marks it down to the contracted rate. I then am responsible for the contracted rate up to the point where I have paid $5,000 and then the insurance company pays after that. I should point out that the insurance company has therefore never paid dime one, because I have never hit the deductible yet. One might think I was getting ripped off, except that paying everything myself I pay $250 a month plus maybe $500 a year in doctor's bills, whereas for "normal" insurance, I would be paying $800 a month plus about $500 a year in deductibles and copays. Even if I hit the $5,000 deductible, I would have paid less under this policy then if I had my old policy and didn't ever go to the doctor.
The reason I have a $5,000 deductible is because they didn't offer a higher one.
There are a lot of problems with healthcare, but Obama has not proposed an answer to any of them. he has proposed a problem to people not have INSURANCE, which is not the same as people not having HEALTHCARE. Under my old policy, I had INSURANCE, but I could not afford to also have HEALTHCARE (because of the additional deductibles and copays). Under my new policy, I have HEALTHCARE AND I have INSURANCE if something really terrible happens. Under Obama's plan, everyone will have INSURANCE, but most people making under $100,000 a year will not be able to afford both the INSURANCE and the cost of HEALTHCARE.
Wait, I am part of everyone, and yet I don't want a government check OR free Health Care. I want to be paid commensurate with my performance, and I want to pay most of my medical expenses out of pocket and have an emergency backup plan that I pay into monthly along with a large pool of other people (what we used to call "Insurance") which covers only after a certain high deductible is paid out of my own pocket.
In my experience as a voter, the Republicans fail to delivery their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed, and the Democrats tend to deliver on their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed.
I do. all the time. Well, twice.
If I am not traveling, I don't use an alarm clock at all. I just get up when I am done sleeping and get ready for work. I usually get to work a little after 9, but nobody gives me any grief about it because I work until 6 or 7. Also, having woken up naturally, I am more alert and focused than the rest of the people who are barely able to keep their eyes open even with their 64 ounce mugs of coffee or $10 Starbucks concoctions.
When I am traveling, and especially when I go east, I usually need an alarm clock because it is earlier than I am used to getting up. I find myself much less alert. I still don't use my phone as an alarm clock. I prefer the clock radio that all hotel rooms have. I don't have to worry about the battery running down and the alarm thus not going off.
You're right. I mean they get every single detail of American society exactly right, from the fat, lazy balding guy who loses his job every week and spends every night in a bar, to the town that has the tallest mountain in the world, a gorge comparable to the grand canyon, frozen winters, a vast desert, picturesque beaches, is landlocked, and so forth. Yet somehow, they manage to get the state of Korean technology wrong. Go figure.
Now you see why they mentioned circular argument. Is 1 gram defined as 1 cubic centimeter of water, or is 1 cubic centimeter defined as the amount of water that weighs one gram?
Non-ethanol Gasoline can sit for awhile, but if you let it sit for years, if may fire, but it will probably reduce the life of your engine. The ethanol crap that they put in gasoline now causes it to go bad in as little as 90 days.
The world's largest capacitor bank cost 10 million Euros (about 14 million U.S. Dollars) and can store about 1/6th of the power necessary to charge that car's battery. It is housed in an area the size of a typical U.S. house.
Even if internet sales were to be considered taxable, I would think it would have to be at the Point of Sale, just as it is in the brick and mortar world. I don't know if they would go by where the servers were located, or where the company was located, or the location of the warehouse that it was shipped to or what, but for most places, there would be 1 to maybe a couple of dozen possible taxing locations, the rules of which would be fairly simple to know. This wouldn't help NC unless one of those locations was in NC. Also, NC is being greedy and going for the whole pie. In most states, if you have already paid sales tax on something, then the Use Tax on it is only the overage (if any) of your taxing districts sales tax rate above the taxing district of wherever you bought the item.
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Code signing is just a money making scheme for Microsoft cleverly disguised as a protective measure for us users. Smaller projects can not afford to have their code digitally signed by Microsoft. People have been writing workarounds for this involving spoofing the driver as being in TEST mode, but this is a hassle for the end user.
what photo... all I see is a smoking dead website...
It may be just a sinkhole, but at least the website cratered.
Someone who makes his living helping others cheat is surprised at how rampant cheating is. Is a gas station owner also surprised that most everyone that comes to his store is looking for gas?
Most people who wanted the Beatles catalog have probably owned it on CD for over 20
Not only that, but I bought it from APPLE over 20 years ago.
Yeah, & what is the backlash to the college for basically banning all MMORPGs & Starcraft II?
I guess the GPAs would go up.
You would be stupid to sign such a contract, however.
Stupid or desperate, I agree. However, in almost every case where someone is signing such a contract, there is literally no alternative. Would you just not go to college, because all of the colleges have this phrasing in their IT contracts? Would you not buy a cell phone because all of the cell phone companies have this phrasing in their contracts? Would you not receive power from the electric company, not receive gas from the gas company, not work for almost any employer?
At some point, the courts need to step up and realize that these contracts can not be binding when the agreeing party has no recourse other than to do without said service. In the case of IT at a university, they almost certainly REQUIRE you to have internet access, and if you are in the dorms, it MUST be provided by them, so it ought to be ILLEGAL to make you sign a ToS that they can change at any time.
Wow, I got modded "flamebait". Amazing.
Yes, because your opinion differs from the groupthink that entertainment ought to be free. Since there is no "disagree" moderation, they incorrectly use flamebait instead.
Now let's see what is the average country ratio of employers to employees ? 1 to 1000 doesn't sound unreasonable - which group should the government be protecting here ?
There are over 31 million businesses in the U.S. That represents a less than 1 to 5 employer to employee ratio. The vast majority of these are small businesses. Small businesses make up 80% of our workforce and are the backbone of our economy. While many of the laws that are proposed seem good because they are going to stick it to the rich businessman, they real fact is that the rich businessman is largely insulated from most of these laws, and what the laws really do is hurt the small businessman, and therefore, hurt our economy.
In all of the states that I am aware of, the exact opposite is true. Most states are at-will and they can fire you for any reason or no reason. In fact, it makes more sense for them to fire you for NO reason. If they have a reason, then you might be able to take them to court and prove them wrong or sue them for discrimination.
You're not supposed to save for your retirement for a few years, you're supposed to start when you're 20. Historically, the stock market performs at better than 10% over the long haul.
So who do you think is going to look after you when you're eighty?
I will do my best to take care of myself, however, it won't be easy since the government is trying to take care of me. They want to take X amount out of my paycheck and then 30 years from now when it is worth 5X, they will give me back 1/2X to pay for my medical bills.
This all resulted from people not saving enough money to take care of themselves and socialists decided that the government needs to save for us. When the government saves for us, it underperforms inflation, let alone the stock market.
...laptops are called laptops because you can put them on top of your lap. I never realized that was why they were called that since no human being has ever put one on their lap before this study.
Oh, so anyone who does not want what you say "everyone" wants gets modded as troll. What a haven of free dialogue slashdot has become.
Do you want to pay ten times as much for a routine medical procedure as someone that has insurance?
Certainly not! And I don't. I have a $5,000 deductible. When I go to the doctor, I present my insurance, they bill the insurance company 1 bazillion dollars, and the insurance company marks it down to the contracted rate. I then am responsible for the contracted rate up to the point where I have paid $5,000 and then the insurance company pays after that. I should point out that the insurance company has therefore never paid dime one, because I have never hit the deductible yet. One might think I was getting ripped off, except that paying everything myself I pay $250 a month plus maybe $500 a year in doctor's bills, whereas for "normal" insurance, I would be paying $800 a month plus about $500 a year in deductibles and copays. Even if I hit the $5,000 deductible, I would have paid less under this policy then if I had my old policy and didn't ever go to the doctor.
The reason I have a $5,000 deductible is because they didn't offer a higher one.
There are a lot of problems with healthcare, but Obama has not proposed an answer to any of them. he has proposed a problem to people not have INSURANCE, which is not the same as people not having HEALTHCARE. Under my old policy, I had INSURANCE, but I could not afford to also have HEALTHCARE (because of the additional deductibles and copays). Under my new policy, I have HEALTHCARE AND I have INSURANCE if something really terrible happens. Under Obama's plan, everyone will have INSURANCE, but most people making under $100,000 a year will not be able to afford both the INSURANCE and the cost of HEALTHCARE.
Wait, I am part of everyone, and yet I don't want a government check OR free Health Care. I want to be paid commensurate with my performance, and I want to pay most of my medical expenses out of pocket and have an emergency backup plan that I pay into monthly along with a large pool of other people (what we used to call "Insurance") which covers only after a certain high deductible is paid out of my own pocket.
In my experience as a voter, the Republicans fail to delivery their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed, and the Democrats tend to deliver on their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed.
I do. all the time. Well, twice.
If I am not traveling, I don't use an alarm clock at all. I just get up when I am done sleeping and get ready for work. I usually get to work a little after 9, but nobody gives me any grief about it because I work until 6 or 7. Also, having woken up naturally, I am more alert and focused than the rest of the people who are barely able to keep their eyes open even with their 64 ounce mugs of coffee or $10 Starbucks concoctions.
When I am traveling, and especially when I go east, I usually need an alarm clock because it is earlier than I am used to getting up. I find myself much less alert. I still don't use my phone as an alarm clock. I prefer the clock radio that all hotel rooms have. I don't have to worry about the battery running down and the alarm thus not going off.
except I would change it to read: unlike math, literature, history, politics and music have little relevance to everybody's daily life.
You're right. I mean they get every single detail of American society exactly right, from the fat, lazy balding guy who loses his job every week and spends every night in a bar, to the town that has the tallest mountain in the world, a gorge comparable to the grand canyon, frozen winters, a vast desert, picturesque beaches, is landlocked, and so forth. Yet somehow, they manage to get the state of Korean technology wrong. Go figure.
Maybe I am missing something, but didn't this intro actually already air? It sure sounds very familiar.
Now you see why they mentioned circular argument. Is 1 gram defined as 1 cubic centimeter of water, or is 1 cubic centimeter defined as the amount of water that weighs one gram?
Non-ethanol Gasoline can sit for awhile, but if you let it sit for years, if may fire, but it will probably reduce the life of your engine. The ethanol crap that they put in gasoline now causes it to go bad in as little as 90 days.
The world's largest capacitor bank cost 10 million Euros (about 14 million U.S. Dollars) and can store about 1/6th of the power necessary to charge that car's battery. It is housed in an area the size of a typical U.S. house.
I'll bet your house doesn't run off DC either, which means you need to waste a lot of electricity converting it to DC to power the charger.
Even if internet sales were to be considered taxable, I would think it would have to be at the Point of Sale, just as it is in the brick and mortar world. I don't know if they would go by where the servers were located, or where the company was located, or the location of the warehouse that it was shipped to or what, but for most places, there would be 1 to maybe a couple of dozen possible taxing locations, the rules of which would be fairly simple to know. This wouldn't help NC unless one of those locations was in NC. Also, NC is being greedy and going for the whole pie. In most states, if you have already paid sales tax on something, then the Use Tax on it is only the overage (if any) of your taxing districts sales tax rate above the taxing district of wherever you bought the item.