[Points up]
What he said. Really. Thank you for taking the time to do the maths on this: contention is a necessity and now that we have tools for hammering available bandwidth like torrents etc it's forced the issue to the fore. Any ISP that offers all customers a 1:1 unshaped connection is going to go bust in short order.
No. On a $200 iTunes card, Apple will pay royalities of X dollars. You using a fake iTunes card gives you $200 to "spend" on ITMS. Apple will pay X dollars in royalties of that, as the card's accepted as real by ITMS. You get $200 spend on music, it costs Apple X dollars to give it to you. You have defrauded Apple.
There's exactly that system for Retail gift cards. The idea is you can stock gift cards to be redeemed at lots of different places, but those cards are worthless until activated. When you purchase one, it'll be activated by the store EPOS talking via a third party gateway to indicate that the card sold is now "live". Much the same method's used for eTopup cards for mobile phones etc. Common payment gateway companies (which make a nice living on commission) are Blackhawk, Paypoint and Coinstar.
Doing it this way reduces theft, and it reduces the amount the retailer has to pay in advance (they're only charged on the bank reconciliation when card activated).
I'd assumed iTunes cards were exactly the same and to be honest, if they aren't, I don't understand why.
Yup, maybe we shouldn't be refurbishing them at all. Maybe we'll have to go to Congress and ask for hundreds of millions to develop a new one. I can feel funding astroturfing coming on...
No. This would be like a rape victim indescriminately mass murdering hundreds of thousands of men, on the basis that a man was responsible for what had happened to her.
Aren't we only allowed car analogies on here, anyway?
This is one of the original selling points for Bluetooth. Ericsson envisaged that theatres and libraries would have Bluetooth beacons that politely asked Bluetooth phones to go into silent mode. Great idea, never happened.
From TFA: "the move has enraged teaching unions who have labelled the scheme "intrusive" and "unnecessary"
"Under national guidelines, teachers can be monitored only three hours a year following complaints that excessive monitoring was putting them off.
Dr Mary Bousted, head of the ATL teaching union, said she had "major reservations" about the technology being used to monitor staff.
She said: "It would be hard to see how teachers or support staff will behave naturally if they are being monitored. They are likely to be quite nervous if they feel they are being watched on camera. It does seem a bit Big Brother-ish. Although schools say that the process is voluntary, it would be quite difficult to stand out and say 'no' if other people are agreeing to it."
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT union, said: "More and more schools are wasting thousands of pounds of tax payers money on CCTV cameras which all available evidence shows are not the most effective method of maintaining school security, neither are they an appropriate way of monitoring classroom practise.
"We do not support the use of cameras in this way and see no professional security or educational benefits to such systems."
We have few enough teachers that we're incentivising going into teaching by giving graduates 6000UKP if they stay in teaching for a few years, and shit like this is meant to encourage people to join the profession? Your boss sitting on your shoulder for 8 hours a day telling you what to do? Like that'll encourage a lively, interesting and friendly environment?
Even burger-flipping at McD's is less invasive than that.
The poor teachers are probably afraid to do *anything* for fear that it'll be interpreted wrongly and used against them.
I'm surprised no-one's used the "stop looking at my kids, you pervert" approach to try and torpedo this, though.
Um, no. The *world* economy is in the toilet. The UK is arguably in a similar state to the US: it's not comparable to Iceland.
Besides, look at history: when did a recession last breed peace and freedom?
Check this out: high def, remote controllable cameras and microphones in the classroom, with the head teacher monitoring teachers' every move. The teachers have an earpiece where they get instant criticism of their teaching methods, live. Sound like job satisfaction to you? You couldn't make it up: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/education/s/1100128_class_cctv_comes_under_fire
If you've not used them much yourself for the last year or two, then you might want to deprecate AVG. It's got a bit fat and clunky and they seem to be slipping into Norton mode.
There's a new guy in town, too: Avira has a free-for-personal-use version, a small footprint and gets excellent reviews.
Hey, have we forgottent the Sony Rootkit debacle? Where they deliberately infected millions of PCs with rootkits from their "CD"s and then repeatedly lied about it?
Sony:
1) I'd rather teabag a mime than give Sony another m'fricking dime
2) Memory stick, MS Duo, Magicgate, UMD, minidisk: stoppit with the formats, OK?
3) Also, fuck you
+1 to all the above, except e-books aren't cheap enough. Think about the cost of materials, printing, binding, distribution etc of paper books. Why are the e-book versions so damn expensive in comparison? They should be maybe 30% the price of the dead tree version.
Oh man, just what I need. I love DX, and now you've given me two more of them.
Geeks, there's a lot of love to be had sifting through the USB handwarmers for the gems - DX's LED torches are remarkably similar to Surefire's, for example, and they do free world wide shipping. Taking a punt on a cheap box of gadgets to arrive in the post is one of my favourite hobbies...
Hey Sony!
1) The CD's dead.
2) The UMD is dead
3) Dressing up something that's lowering your production costs and trying to artificially generate a buzz for physical media in a last ditch attempt to stop digital downloads is dead
4) We haven't forgotten the CD rootkit debacle, or your long drawn out lying about it, either
5) Also, FUCK YOU
Slashdot Mirror
[Points up]
What he said. Really. Thank you for taking the time to do the maths on this: contention is a necessity and now that we have tools for hammering available bandwidth like torrents etc it's forced the issue to the fore. Any ISP that offers all customers a 1:1 unshaped connection is going to go bust in short order.
PHB101. Didn't you get my memo?
Oh, and one other thing. Those TPS reports...
"I toss my cookies at the end of every session"
You'll go blind...
No. On a $200 iTunes card, Apple will pay royalities of X dollars. You using a fake iTunes card gives you $200 to "spend" on ITMS. Apple will pay X dollars in royalties of that, as the card's accepted as real by ITMS. You get $200 spend on music, it costs Apple X dollars to give it to you. You have defrauded Apple.
There's exactly that system for Retail gift cards. The idea is you can stock gift cards to be redeemed at lots of different places, but those cards are worthless until activated. When you purchase one, it'll be activated by the store EPOS talking via a third party gateway to indicate that the card sold is now "live". Much the same method's used for eTopup cards for mobile phones etc. Common payment gateway companies (which make a nice living on commission) are Blackhawk, Paypoint and Coinstar.
Doing it this way reduces theft, and it reduces the amount the retailer has to pay in advance (they're only charged on the bank reconciliation when card activated).
I'd assumed iTunes cards were exactly the same and to be honest, if they aren't, I don't understand why.
Yup, maybe we shouldn't be refurbishing them at all. Maybe we'll have to go to Congress and ask for hundreds of millions to develop a new one. I can feel funding astroturfing coming on...
No. This would be like a rape victim indescriminately mass murdering hundreds of thousands of men, on the basis that a man was responsible for what had happened to her.
Aren't we only allowed car analogies on here, anyway?
Bet your battery life sucks, though.
It's a joke, laugh
Sounds perfect FOR A LIBRARY! I'd love my concentration to be interupted by the googling of the librarians
This is one of the original selling points for Bluetooth. Ericsson envisaged that theatres and libraries would have Bluetooth beacons that politely asked Bluetooth phones to go into silent mode. Great idea, never happened.
From TFA: "the move has enraged teaching unions who have labelled the scheme "intrusive" and "unnecessary"
"Under national guidelines, teachers can be monitored only three hours a year following complaints that excessive monitoring was putting them off.
Dr Mary Bousted, head of the ATL teaching union, said she had "major reservations" about the technology being used to monitor staff.
She said: "It would be hard to see how teachers or support staff will behave naturally if they are being monitored. They are likely to be quite nervous if they feel they are being watched on camera. It does seem a bit Big Brother-ish. Although schools say that the process is voluntary, it would be quite difficult to stand out and say 'no' if other people are agreeing to it."
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT union, said: "More and more schools are wasting thousands of pounds of tax payers money on CCTV cameras which all available evidence shows are not the most effective method of maintaining school security, neither are they an appropriate way of monitoring classroom practise.
"We do not support the use of cameras in this way and see no professional security or educational benefits to such systems."
We have few enough teachers that we're incentivising going into teaching by giving graduates 6000UKP if they stay in teaching for a few years, and shit like this is meant to encourage people to join the profession? Your boss sitting on your shoulder for 8 hours a day telling you what to do? Like that'll encourage a lively, interesting and friendly environment?
Even burger-flipping at McD's is less invasive than that.
The poor teachers are probably afraid to do *anything* for fear that it'll be interpreted wrongly and used against them.
I'm surprised no-one's used the "stop looking at my kids, you pervert" approach to try and torpedo this, though.
Um, no. The *world* economy is in the toilet. The UK is arguably in a similar state to the US: it's not comparable to Iceland.
Besides, look at history: when did a recession last breed peace and freedom?
Check this out: high def, remote controllable cameras and microphones in the classroom, with the head teacher monitoring teachers' every move. The teachers have an earpiece where they get instant criticism of their teaching methods, live. Sound like job satisfaction to you? You couldn't make it up:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/education/s/1100128_class_cctv_comes_under_fire
Check this out: high def, remote controllable cameras in the classroom, with the head teacher monitoring teachers' every move. You couldn't make it up:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/education/s/1100128_class_cctv_comes_under_fire
If you've not used them much yourself for the last year or two, then you might want to deprecate AVG. It's got a bit fat and clunky and they seem to be slipping into Norton mode. There's a new guy in town, too: Avira has a free-for-personal-use version, a small footprint and gets excellent reviews.
If you use any sequencing, you need a click.
...and you cannot do this for a live performance. If you use any sequenced parts, you need a click.
Hey, have we forgottent the Sony Rootkit debacle? Where they deliberately infected millions of PCs with rootkits from their "CD"s and then repeatedly lied about it? Sony: 1) I'd rather teabag a mime than give Sony another m'fricking dime
2) Memory stick, MS Duo, Magicgate, UMD, minidisk: stoppit with the formats, OK? 3) Also, fuck you
+1 to all the above, except e-books aren't cheap enough. Think about the cost of materials, printing, binding, distribution etc of paper books. Why are the e-book versions so damn expensive in comparison? They should be maybe 30% the price of the dead tree version.
Oh man, just what I need. I love DX, and now you've given me two more of them.
Geeks, there's a lot of love to be had sifting through the USB handwarmers for the gems - DX's LED torches are remarkably similar to Surefire's, for example, and they do free world wide shipping. Taking a punt on a cheap box of gadgets to arrive in the post is one of my favourite hobbies...
You missed
...Also, FUCK YOU
Hey Sony!
1) The CD's dead.
2) The UMD is dead
3) Dressing up something that's lowering your production costs and trying to artificially generate a buzz for physical media in a last ditch attempt to stop digital downloads is dead
4) We haven't forgotten the CD rootkit debacle, or your long drawn out lying about it, either
5) Also, FUCK YOU
...3) Profit!
You keep setting them up...
Very good point. They don't *have* to let their agents licence the ebook rights to Amazon, do they?