I don't know about this -- this seems a little specious to me.
I'm not saying that I don't beleive that it's impossible that JetBlue gave/sold their passenger list, but the article doesn't give any corroborating evidence other than the old "they deny it, it must be true." The file they linked to as a copy of data put up on the web also seems to be empty, so I couldn't look at what this data was. Regardless, how did they figure out that this was JetBlue's data? I'm also wondering if JetBlue even has had 5 million customers -- perhaps they meant 5 million transaction records?
I'm all for privacy, free speech, blah blah blah, but this seems pretty alarmist and reeks of, what's the term... conspiracy theory. This just doesn't add up.
Also, congratulations to all who have not purchased CD's in protest. Keep up the good work.
Not buying a cd in protest?
I haven't bought a cd in about 2 years, but not because I'm protesting -- I can't afford it. Considering how little money I receive, after I spend it on textbooks, school supplies, etc., I have very little money left. Now, am I going to take a leftover $20 and go buy a cd so I can sit at home and listen to it, or am I going to use it to do something more social, like going out with friends?
About a year ago I was buying records, but now I can't even afford that (and I'm pretty sure that the stuff I buy isn't really part of the RIAA anyway....). And no, I don't download music -- I still think that there's a moral issue there.
They cite that one of the main reasons is that Internet connection speeds have still yet to catch up on the whole in order to benefit from the rich multimedia content of the CD.
Yeah, true, but at least web content has more of a gaurantee of working on my computer. We can guess that this is most likely a windows app. Nothing wrong with that. Just that the web content is a little more universal.
I wonder if people will actually use the cd? I know that the CD's I've gotten free in magazines and whatnot were ignored by the third or fourth cd...
Just my two cents...
As far as my experience is concerned, it's pretty easy to tell the client 'hey, I'm going to be "x amount of time" late.'
The hard part comes when it's your boss wanting you to write some sql to falsify client records, thus falsely billing the client about 80k/mo.
I told my boss no and I got fired. But the client still loves me.
Take what you can get, I guess....
More on topic, the client should always realise that you work under a certain schedule -- a development schedule. This is the schedule you should have submitted to them previously. It includes about two weeks extra to finish the project. Even with this, you won't finish on time -- you'll still be finding bugs, assuming you test your app properly. Make your finish date two weeks earlier and I'll gaurantee you'll find fewer bugs (doesn't mean they won't be there....)
The software, using 14 digital cameras around the table, can keep track of every card played, amounts bet, and even tell the difference between your drink, napkin, cards, chips, and ashtrays.
Of course! It keeps track of how many drinks you consume. Obviously if you've had less than two drinks and you're winning, you must be a card counter.
But wait -- what's wrong with counting cards? I could see how it would be bad if you were just sitting on the sides and all of a sudden jumped in when you figured that you had about a fifty percent chance of getting blackjack or whatever, but when you sit there all night and are able to keep track of when to play what based on what's gone by? How is this bad?
Maybe I'm missing something here... (eg. I'm not a croupier)
When I first heard abou the RIM devices, they were already pretty well known. This was about two or three years ago. Since then I've seen them become fairly wide spread. (look at the federal government)
It seems that in order to "actively enforce" a patent or copyright, you just have to wait until a desirable amount of royalties or licensing fees have been accrued before you defend your IP in court. As far as I can tell -- from their claims, at least -- my transmitting this message through slashdot violates their IP claims. (I might be wrong -- argue with me)
This almost makes me want to tear apart my old Apple//c and see what I can make. Almost.
Why not just keep your old Apple IIc and spend the five bucks or whatever buying one on ebay? There are tons of "classic" computers on ebay that you can get for rediculously low prices (well, considering...) A while ago I almost got a lot of five sparc ipx's for $20. The winning bid was something like $25. Stuff like that is up there all the time.
Of course, I have some sort of weird ethical qualms with gutting old machines. Someone else usually has to throw them out. Why not try this mod on a nice toaster or even a cuisinart (double props if the thing still works without ruining the mobo)
This story reminded me of how when I was a kid (about 6 - 14 or so) I would take the garden hose and one of those gun-shaped attachments to my mom's garden and explore the excavatory power of water.
At one point I had a very large system of trenches about a half foot deep dug through the flowers that went on for quite a distance.
Needless to say, the local authorities (mom) weren't thrilled with this "science." They all said I was mad. They called me crazy. er...
I wonder how they can claim that L.A. is the first city with its own TLD, when the Vatican, which is a city as well as a country, has had its own TLD for a few years now...
Yeah, but your chances of registering hotsexyteens.va are probably somewhat slim.
Why not add some of the features of the robots from BattleBots?
You have that one with the flamethrower that could cook 'em. Then there's the one with the big saw blades - 'nuff said... And what about the one with the giant hammer? Pre-tenderized chicken bits. Aw yeah.
Then all you'd need is a machine to dredge 'em in eggs 'n' breading and fry 'em up...
Oh, I get it...
You're being clever and demonstrating one of the "problems" that could arise in a cell network: choppy, confusing, garbled words that only barely resemble any modern language.
Now let's see if I can interpret your message correctly:
West-coast rox0rs,
Hmmm... West coast of India... That must be the India/Pakistan border! "rox0rs" must refer to a mountain or other large rock formation...
east-coast is teh suxx
I'm stumped here. I'm going to assume though that "east-coast" refers to India's eastern portion on the Indian Ocean, but you most likely thought that India borders the Pacific, so we'll take that into account. But then you say that it "is teh suxx". I have no clue what this means, however, I will venture so far as to say it is a negative comment towards afformentioned "east-coast." Thus, you do not think highly of the Pacific Ocean
California love
I'm lost. I give up. In the future, I reccomend you either consult the MLA or take a beginner's English (or any other language for that matter) course at your local community college.
Done.
Frank Lloyd Wright did his most celebrated work after the age of fifty.
Yeah. Sure.
My only problem is with the fact that many people were already experimenting with flight before this -- most were under the age of 35. At the time, the mathematics and physics necessary were tremendous, what with lift and velocity and all that, but compared to modern standards are trivial. If we look back to the experiments of Da Vinci, we can realise that the "unified theory" can simply be expressed in terms of z=y^5/... oh wait... wrong Wright...
Two of his more interesting pieces of evidence include Grigori Perelman's (probable) proof of the Poincare Conjecture at 40 and Andrew Wile's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem at 41.
Yes, but at the tender age of 22, I can not only add my bar tab together, but also figure an appropriate tip.
Young people can't do hard math my ass.
This is just another reason why I don't use RealPlayer -- I decode my streams by hand. I have the help of fourteen trained cats, and as the stream is "played' accross a readerboard in front of us we all translate it into.au format.
A central server compares all the files in realtime and averages them to compensate for any typing errors/drunkennes.
It's a surprisingly efficient system. Right now I'm listening to the White House's response to the leopard inspectors in Iraq who just found a forbidden stash of Gucci pants in an Iraqi bunker.
I'm eager to upgrade to a 28-cat system, thus effectively doubling my sample rate and allowing me to listen to stereo feeds and possibly even allow video by... er.... damn, I gotta get a life...
I heard that he still gets to sit on the board... But he only gets to sit for 1000 hours, and he has to use them within the first month... sorry... couldn't resist...
I'm so used to coming home from the bars and getting very basic "here's an update to this" or "here's a new apache module" from slashdot.
But when I come home at 5 in the morning, not quite so sober, and you're talking about half dimensions? That's just not nice....
What the hell am I supposed to wrap my brain around? If it's only half dimensional, does that mean I only have to wrap just my left lobe around it?
I'm sooooooo lost....:)
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know about this -- this seems a little specious to me.
I'm not saying that I don't beleive that it's impossible that JetBlue gave/sold their passenger list, but the article doesn't give any corroborating evidence other than the old "they deny it, it must be true." The file they linked to as a copy of data put up on the web also seems to be empty, so I couldn't look at what this data was. Regardless, how did they figure out that this was JetBlue's data? I'm also wondering if JetBlue even has had 5 million customers -- perhaps they meant 5 million transaction records?
I'm all for privacy, free speech, blah blah blah, but this seems pretty alarmist and reeks of, what's the term... conspiracy theory. This just doesn't add up.
Just my two cents, go ahead and flame me.
No, the real fun is that if you misspell verisign like this: :)
http://www.veirsign.com
Looks like someone beat them at their own game.
Also, congratulations to all who have not purchased CD's in protest. Keep up the good work.
Not buying a cd in protest?
I haven't bought a cd in about 2 years, but not because I'm protesting -- I can't afford it. Considering how little money I receive, after I spend it on textbooks, school supplies, etc., I have very little money left. Now, am I going to take a leftover $20 and go buy a cd so I can sit at home and listen to it, or am I going to use it to do something more social, like going out with friends?
About a year ago I was buying records, but now I can't even afford that (and I'm pretty sure that the stuff I buy isn't really part of the RIAA anyway....). And no, I don't download music -- I still think that there's a moral issue there.
I guess that this is what they refer to as a "fluff" piece...
<grin>
I'll go away now...
They cite that one of the main reasons is that Internet connection speeds have still yet to catch up on the whole in order to benefit from the rich multimedia content of the CD.
Yeah, true, but at least web content has more of a gaurantee of working on my computer. We can guess that this is most likely a windows app. Nothing wrong with that. Just that the web content is a little more universal.
I wonder if people will actually use the cd? I know that the CD's I've gotten free in magazines and whatnot were ignored by the third or fourth cd...
Just my two cents...
Oh, by the way, the bad company is Encompass TeleServices
As far as my experience is concerned, it's pretty easy to tell the client 'hey, I'm going to be "x amount of time" late.'
The hard part comes when it's your boss wanting you to write some sql to falsify client records, thus falsely billing the client about 80k/mo.
I told my boss no and I got fired. But the client still loves me.
Take what you can get, I guess....
More on topic, the client should always realise that you work under a certain schedule -- a development schedule. This is the schedule you should have submitted to them previously. It includes about two weeks extra to finish the project. Even with this, you won't finish on time -- you'll still be finding bugs, assuming you test your app properly. Make your finish date two weeks earlier and I'll gaurantee you'll find fewer bugs (doesn't mean they won't be there....)
The software, using 14 digital cameras around the table, can keep track of every card played, amounts bet, and even tell the difference between your drink, napkin, cards, chips, and ashtrays.
Of course! It keeps track of how many drinks you consume. Obviously if you've had less than two drinks and you're winning, you must be a card counter.
But wait -- what's wrong with counting cards? I could see how it would be bad if you were just sitting on the sides and all of a sudden jumped in when you figured that you had about a fifty percent chance of getting blackjack or whatever, but when you sit there all night and are able to keep track of when to play what based on what's gone by? How is this bad?
Maybe I'm missing something here... (eg. I'm not a croupier)
When I first heard abou the RIM devices, they were already pretty well known. This was about two or three years ago. Since then I've seen them become fairly wide spread. (look at the federal government)
It seems that in order to "actively enforce" a patent or copyright, you just have to wait until a desirable amount of royalties or licensing fees have been accrued before you defend your IP in court. As far as I can tell -- from their claims, at least -- my transmitting this message through slashdot violates their IP claims. (I might be wrong -- argue with me)
This almost makes me want to tear apart my old Apple //c and see what I can make. Almost.
Why not just keep your old Apple IIc and spend the five bucks or whatever buying one on ebay? There are tons of "classic" computers on ebay that you can get for rediculously low prices (well, considering...) A while ago I almost got a lot of five sparc ipx's for $20. The winning bid was something like $25. Stuff like that is up there all the time.
Of course, I have some sort of weird ethical qualms with gutting old machines. Someone else usually has to throw them out. Why not try this mod on a nice toaster or even a cuisinart (double props if the thing still works without ruining the mobo)
just my two cents (adjusted for inflation)
This story reminded me of how when I was a kid (about 6 - 14 or so) I would take the garden hose and one of those gun-shaped attachments to my mom's garden and explore the excavatory power of water.
At one point I had a very large system of trenches about a half foot deep dug through the flowers that went on for quite a distance.
Needless to say, the local authorities (mom) weren't thrilled with this "science." They all said I was mad. They called me crazy. er...
For more info on backdoors, try backdoor.com
I wonder how they can claim that L.A. is the first city with its own TLD, when the Vatican, which is a city as well as a country, has had its own TLD for a few years now...
Yeah, but your chances of registering hotsexyteens.va are probably somewhat slim.
Wow. It's the first product that seems to be ill-suited for porn...
I mean, what good would the display be if it's moving back and forth so much?
Why not add some of the features of the robots from BattleBots?
You have that one with the flamethrower that could cook 'em. Then there's the one with the big saw blades - 'nuff said... And what about the one with the giant hammer? Pre-tenderized chicken bits. Aw yeah.
Then all you'd need is a machine to dredge 'em in eggs 'n' breading and fry 'em up...
Oh, I get it...
You're being clever and demonstrating one of the "problems" that could arise in a cell network: choppy, confusing, garbled words that only barely resemble any modern language.
Now let's see if I can interpret your message correctly:
West-coast rox0rs,
Hmmm... West coast of India... That must be the India/Pakistan border! "rox0rs" must refer to a mountain or other large rock formation...
east-coast is teh suxx
I'm stumped here. I'm going to assume though that "east-coast" refers to India's eastern portion on the Indian Ocean, but you most likely thought that India borders the Pacific, so we'll take that into account. But then you say that it "is teh suxx". I have no clue what this means, however, I will venture so far as to say it is a negative comment towards afformentioned "east-coast." Thus, you do not think highly of the Pacific Ocean
California love
I'm lost. I give up. In the future, I reccomend you either consult the MLA or take a beginner's English (or any other language for that matter) course at your local community college.
Done.
Frank Lloyd Wright did his most celebrated work after the age of fifty.
Yeah. Sure.
My only problem is with the fact that many people were already experimenting with flight before this -- most were under the age of 35. At the time, the mathematics and physics necessary were tremendous, what with lift and velocity and all that, but compared to modern standards are trivial. If we look back to the experiments of Da Vinci, we can realise that the "unified theory" can simply be expressed in terms of z=y^5/... oh wait... wrong Wright...
A single example is not a proof
EXACTLY!!!
The proof comes from the side of the bottle. You should tip the bartender more the higher the proof.
I'm going to hell for that one...
Easy.
:)
You ever try to sell a kidney on ebay? You know how they stop you real quick?
Both filters use the same algorithm...
Two of his more interesting pieces of evidence include Grigori Perelman's (probable) proof of the Poincare Conjecture at 40 and Andrew Wile's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem at 41.
Yes, but at the tender age of 22, I can not only add my bar tab together, but also figure an appropriate tip.
Young people can't do hard math my ass.
This is just another reason why I don't use RealPlayer -- I decode my streams by hand. I have the help of fourteen trained cats, and as the stream is "played' accross a readerboard in front of us we all translate it into .au format.
A central server compares all the files in realtime and averages them to compensate for any typing errors/drunkennes.
It's a surprisingly efficient system. Right now I'm listening to the White House's response to the leopard inspectors in Iraq who just found a forbidden stash of Gucci pants in an Iraqi bunker.
I'm eager to upgrade to a 28-cat system, thus effectively doubling my sample rate and allowing me to listen to stereo feeds and possibly even allow video by... er.... damn, I gotta get a life...
I heard that he still gets to sit on the board...
But he only gets to sit for 1000 hours, and he has to use them within the first month...
sorry... couldn't resist...
Set up a web server, give us the address, we'll see how they charge you... Seems easy enough.... :)
I'm so used to coming home from the bars and getting very basic "here's an update to this" or "here's a new apache module" from slashdot.
:)
But when I come home at 5 in the morning, not quite so sober, and you're talking about half dimensions? That's just not nice.... What the hell am I supposed to wrap my brain around? If it's only half dimensional, does that mean I only have to wrap just my left lobe around it? I'm sooooooo lost....