Sorry, you are thinking short term: you are assuming that whatever it is you bought WILL fail within the extended warrantly period.
Now, most devices won't actually fail. So, by taking the money that you would have spent on the extended warranties for your car, tv, fridge, and others all together, you will have a fund that will pay for the smaller number of devices that do actually fail.
This is just what an insurance company does. You are doing just the same, but cutting out the profit margin taken by the store and the insurance company.
Of course, you don;t need to actually create the fund --as long as you can pay for repairs and replacements as and when things fail. Nevertheless, your finances will benefit from NOT having bought unnecessary insurance.
Think of it this way: haven't you heard that you should buy insurance only for the things that you CANNOT afford to replace. In most cases, these extended warranties fail that test.
This is the biggest "scam" of all: selling "extended warranties". I nver buy them and use the rationale of self-insurance.
These "extended warranties" are an insurance policy. The buyer is buying insurance, not a warranty.
Question: why buy insurance if you can insure yourself. Think of it this way: most people could afford the loss that the insurance covers, so, if you really want to be anal about it, instead of buying the insurance, put the money into an account. Pretty soon, that account will have sufficient funds in it to cover any losses that you could possibly imagine an extended warranty covering. The difference is that it now YOUR MONEY, not the insurance companies'.
You will be in effect, your own insurance company.
There is a small, but finite chance that over the long term you will be worse off if you self insure, but I think most people would acknowledge that the risk is small in comparison to the gain.
Since, for many sales by Best Buy and others, there is no profit on the sale of the item itself and only the extended warranty provides all of the profit, that's why I will never be the sort of buyer Best Buy are looking for. Of course, I can always let a sales assistant THINK I'm going to buy the warranty, right up to the time comes to actually pay!
Once again, another defender of Microsoft's software fails to explain why IIS, with it's smaller market share, has had far more vulnerabilities and more severe vulnerabilities than Apache.
I think what all MS apologists ignore is the security in depth that exists in *NIX systems. They ignore issues like a vulnerability in Apache may not result in a root compromise, because it is running as an unpriviledged user.
He also noted that his client, a North Carolina resident, would have been unaware of the Virginia law.
Since when was ignorance of the law a defense? Surely it must be one of the most widely known tenets of law that ignorance of the the law is not a defense?
I personally am glad that Kerry has done this. My opinion of him has gone up and I am glad that he will not try to divide the country further by dragging us through a contested election. Mr. Kerry, thank you for that.
He could have done that last night. It was pretty obvious that there was no way he could win -- Bush was ome 140k votes ahead in Ohio and it would be entirely unresonable to think that all 140k provisional ballots would be both valid and for Kerry. Furthermore, Kerry did not even have the argument of being ahead in the popular vote.
So, yes, kerry did the honorable thing -- but late.
I would have been interested to hear all the comments about popular vote had Kerry won Ohio (and the presidency), sinche Bush's popular vote margin would have still been much higher than Gore's popular vote margin four years ago.
If you RTFA, they indicate that they felt that the disclosure practices and what-not are all above-ground.
Actually, I think that the press release says that WhenU's standards and policies are above ground. The problem is that the spywareguide.com page that is linked to above has a quote that WhenU violates its own policies.
The key questions should perhaps be:
Does Aluria check on actual behavior of the software?
Is Aluria being willfully blind to standards and policy violations by WhenU (and possibly others)?
Are you talking US gallons or British Imperial gallons, which are 20% larger?
Actually, the difference is less: a US gallon is more like 5/6 (rather than 4/5). The measures of fluid ounces are also different between US and Imperial systems.
Personally, I find bathroom attendants to be remarkably creepy. Taking a crap should be a personal experience and they are an intrusion. Nevermind tipping them, I don't even want to see them.
You should try France: I remember taking a pee in an airport (I think) and having a female cleaner wipe a mop around the floor including between my feet at the time!
I have ordered some FPGAs for my company that cost $4000 each -- yes, that's four thousand dollars per each single chip. Now, I don't know how much you can pay if you want the largest, fastest FPGA, but saying "in an FGPA" gives one no indication of the end price of the proposed board.
Truly, why would anyone go into a store where only one manufacturer's stuff is stocked, unless you have already decided to buy one of that manufacturer's products? Even then, as pointed out, it's likely to be the most expensive place to buy.
Personally, I have a like/hate relationship with Frys. I hate going in there, but I drive past one of their stores every day, and they are likely to have what I want. However, I find that buying OEM packaged products at a local store cheaper and a more pleasant experience, because I don't have anyone asking me to show them a receipt as I exit Frys (not that I stop -- I just breeze past the desk and the suckers that have stopped there).
but my best guess would be they'll make it illegal to send these messages from outside the US AND they'll also make it illegal to have financial ties to any group or company that does this, as well.
And how difficult is it for wealthy individuals to either hide their financial connection or have a "friend" set up a webserver? After all, for many people (not including me), the cost is pretty small.
So, how is the FCC going to stop people setting up websites on offshore webservers? Even if they might be able to stop US residents and US companies from doing this, they certainly will have a hard time stopping foreigners.
What is not clear is what can s/w do before it is spyware as defined by the law? As reported on Yahoo, "changing security settings" is pretty vague. It the program just reports home on activity and does not send credit card numbers, etc. would this be considered spyware? I suspect not.
Lofgren said her daughter was recently victimized by electronic thieves in a phishing scam
Suggestion on how to get a new law passed: target close relative of Senator/Congressperson in legal but repugnant manner, sit back and wait for the inevitable knee-jerk response. Now, how do we get the RIAA to sue some poor Senator's son/daughter?
This method has worked pretty well in the past. In the last couple days, I've gotten infected by some browser hijackers and no amount of cleaning and resetting things will delete the %$#@$$#%ers. Is there a better method?
1. Dump IE and use Firefox/Mozilla instead.
2. If you can identify the program that is causing the problem, boot from CD using a Knoppix disk, mount the hard drive and delete the offending files.
Why do you think Renault no longer sells in US? I used to have a used one and I never encountered a car with more problems.
A Renault provided me with the best investment in a car that I ever made. Yes: investment: I bought the car (used), ran it for ~ 9 months, did zero maintenance and sold it for more than I paid for it!
Actually, I used to drive a Chevy station wagon with a hydraulic power booster instead of a vacuum one. It was connected to the power steering pump (thus the same pump provided power assist for both steering and braking)
Not only was it amazingly expewnsive to repair, but when it failed you basically had NO brakes at all.
Citroen cars had (have?) a hydraulic-power braking system. Not power-assisted, but power operated. This was back in the '70s at least, and maybe earlier. However, they built the cars with a large pressure reservoir, so the pump could fail and you would have plenty of pressure in the system to stop the car. The same system also powered the self-leveling suspension and if the pressure failed, the suspension would fail before the brakes.
It was a very nice system. I had Citroen with this. Unfortunately, there was a design flaw: one of the high-pressure fluid lines was just in front of the (inboard) front disk brakes. If the hose failed, it sprayed mineral oil (used at the fluid in the hydraulic system) all over the brakes -- not conducive to fast stopping.
My most loved car is a '79 Toyota Celica with absolutely no power anything. The car was originally sold as a sports edition and it was considered more sporty to not have power steering since you get a better feel for the road without it. At high speed you really don't need power steering. It's for parking and such.
While what you say is absolutely true, it misses another alternative. My '88 Volvo 440 (beloved car, sold to a friend many years ago) had speed-sensitive variable power steering. At lower speeds, you got more assist, at higher speeds: less. Worked wonderfully.
In fact that car was one of my all-time favorites. I think a previous owner had "chipped" it -- it was way too fast!
While on the subject of ideas that are not new, it amuses me to see adverts by Lexus (?) promoting headlights that turn with the steering. Citroen had this when? '70's? Or was it earlier?
You are correct that a spammer with a server can publish an spf record, but he is much, much easier to blackhole than a rapidly changing large selection of compromised dsl machines.
But the spammer can easily and cheaply change the domain name used. While ".com" addresses cost ~$8, ".org.uk" addresses can be bought for even less (about $4). Is it such a barrier to spammers? Spammers that may have paid many dollars to use the network of zombies?
If tool finds that you have office installed then it will ask you to goto the office update site. It can't determine wether the version of office you have is vulnerable or not, only the office update site can do that.
Apparently you either did not read or did not understand my posting.
This was a new PC -- not mine. I went to the Office Update sitee -- the GDI detection tool pointed me to this page. However, the office update site said there were no updates for this PC. Probably this is because Office is not installed on the PC.
I just ran the updates on an XP machine. It claimed that there was vulnerable GDI code on the machine and I should go to the office update page. Guess what: the office update page said there were no updates.
So, apparanetly the system is vulnerable, but there is no way to fix it. Wonderful!
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Sorry, you are thinking short term: you are assuming that whatever it is you bought WILL fail within the extended warrantly period.
Now, most devices won't actually fail. So, by taking the money that you would have spent on the extended warranties for your car, tv, fridge, and others all together, you will have a fund that will pay for the smaller number of devices that do actually fail.
This is just what an insurance company does. You are doing just the same, but cutting out the profit margin taken by the store and the insurance company.
Of course, you don;t need to actually create the fund --as long as you can pay for repairs and replacements as and when things fail. Nevertheless, your finances will benefit from NOT having bought unnecessary insurance.
Think of it this way: haven't you heard that you should buy insurance only for the things that you CANNOT afford to replace. In most cases, these extended warranties fail that test.
This is the biggest "scam" of all: selling "extended warranties". I nver buy them and use the rationale of self-insurance.
These "extended warranties" are an insurance policy. The buyer is buying insurance, not a warranty.
Question: why buy insurance if you can insure yourself. Think of it this way: most people could afford the loss that the insurance covers, so, if you really want to be anal about it, instead of buying the insurance, put the money into an account. Pretty soon, that account will have sufficient funds in it to cover any losses that you could possibly imagine an extended warranty covering. The difference is that it now YOUR MONEY, not the insurance companies'.
You will be in effect, your own insurance company.
There is a small, but finite chance that over the long term you will be worse off if you self insure, but I think most people would acknowledge that the risk is small in comparison to the gain.
Since, for many sales by Best Buy and others, there is no profit on the sale of the item itself and only the extended warranty provides all of the profit, that's why I will never be the sort of buyer Best Buy are looking for. Of course, I can always let a sales assistant THINK I'm going to buy the warranty, right up to the time comes to actually pay!
Once again, another defender of Microsoft's software fails to explain why IIS, with it's smaller market share, has had far more vulnerabilities and more severe vulnerabilities than Apache.
I think what all MS apologists ignore is the security in depth that exists in *NIX systems. They ignore issues like a vulnerability in Apache may not result in a root compromise, because it is running as an unpriviledged user.
It looked like then "special" price was higher than the "normal" price, then I looked again:
The price appeared as $1099 (struckout) and $1699 as the "special" price. I guess "0" and "8" look similar if they have are struck through.
Since when was ignorance of the law a defense? Surely it must be one of the most widely known tenets of law that ignorance of the the law is not a defense?
He could have done that last night. It was pretty obvious that there was no way he could win -- Bush was ome 140k votes ahead in Ohio and it would be entirely unresonable to think that all 140k provisional ballots would be both valid and for Kerry. Furthermore, Kerry did not even have the argument of being ahead in the popular vote.
So, yes, kerry did the honorable thing -- but late.
I would have been interested to hear all the comments about popular vote had Kerry won Ohio (and the presidency), sinche Bush's popular vote margin would have still been much higher than Gore's popular vote margin four years ago.
Actually, I think that the press release says that WhenU's standards and policies are above ground. The problem is that the spywareguide.com page that is linked to above has a quote that WhenU violates its own policies.
The key questions should perhaps be:
Does Aluria check on actual behavior of the software?
Is Aluria being willfully blind to standards and policy violations by WhenU (and possibly others)?
Actually, the difference is less: a US gallon is more like 5/6 (rather than 4/5). The measures of fluid ounces are also different between US and Imperial systems.
This seems amazing, given that a driver was prosecuted in the UK for drinking water while stationary at traffic lights
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What's more, Geeklog makes security a priority.
You should try France: I remember taking a pee in an airport (I think) and having a female cleaner wipe a mop around the floor including between my feet at the time!
I have ordered some FPGAs for my company that cost $4000 each -- yes, that's four thousand dollars per each single chip. Now, I don't know how much you can pay if you want the largest, fastest FPGA, but saying "in an FGPA" gives one no indication of the end price of the proposed board.
Truly, why would anyone go into a store where only one manufacturer's stuff is stocked, unless you have already decided to buy one of that manufacturer's products? Even then, as pointed out, it's likely to be the most expensive place to buy.
Personally, I have a like/hate relationship with Frys. I hate going in there, but I drive past one of their stores every day, and they are likely to have what I want. However, I find that buying OEM packaged products at a local store cheaper and a more pleasant experience, because I don't have anyone asking me to show them a receipt as I exit Frys (not that I stop -- I just breeze past the desk and the suckers that have stopped there).
I don't believe you know which is my country.
but my best guess would be they'll make it illegal to send these messages from outside the US AND they'll also make it illegal to have financial ties to any group or company that does this, as well.
And how difficult is it for wealthy individuals to either hide their financial connection or have a "friend" set up a webserver? After all, for many people (not including me), the cost is pretty small.
So, how is the FCC going to stop people setting up websites on offshore webservers? Even if they might be able to stop US residents and US companies from doing this, they certainly will have a hard time stopping foreigners.
Lofgren said her daughter was recently victimized by electronic thieves in a phishing scam
Suggestion on how to get a new law passed: target close relative of Senator/Congressperson in legal but repugnant manner, sit back and wait for the inevitable knee-jerk response. Now, how do we get the RIAA to sue some poor Senator's son/daughter?
1. Dump IE and use Firefox/Mozilla instead.
2. If you can identify the program that is causing the problem, boot from CD using a Knoppix disk, mount the hard drive and delete the offending files.
A Renault provided me with the best investment in a car that I ever made. Yes: investment: I bought the car (used), ran it for ~ 9 months, did zero maintenance and sold it for more than I paid for it!
It was a very nice system. I had Citroen with this. Unfortunately, there was a design flaw: one of the high-pressure fluid lines was just in front of the (inboard) front disk brakes. If the hose failed, it sprayed mineral oil (used at the fluid in the hydraulic system) all over the brakes -- not conducive to fast stopping.
While what you say is absolutely true, it misses another alternative. My '88 Volvo 440 (beloved car, sold to a friend many years ago) had speed-sensitive variable power steering. At lower speeds, you got more assist, at higher speeds: less. Worked wonderfully.
In fact that car was one of my all-time favorites. I think a previous owner had "chipped" it -- it was way too fast!While on the subject of ideas that are not new, it amuses me to see adverts by Lexus (?) promoting headlights that turn with the steering. Citroen had this when? '70's? Or was it earlier?
Girls?
But the spammer can easily and cheaply change the domain name used. While ".com" addresses cost ~$8, ".org.uk" addresses can be bought for even less (about $4). Is it such a barrier to spammers? Spammers that may have paid many dollars to use the network of zombies?
Apparently you either did not read or did not understand my posting.
This was a new PC -- not mine. I went to the Office Update sitee -- the GDI detection tool pointed me to this page. However, the office update site said there were no updates for this PC. Probably this is because Office is not installed on the PC.
Here's the kicker: Office has not been installed on the PC, so, not: it does not have a '"blacklisted" serialz'.
I just ran the updates on an XP machine. It claimed that there was vulnerable GDI code on the machine and I should go to the office update page. Guess what: the office update page said there were no updates. So, apparanetly the system is vulnerable, but there is no way to fix it. Wonderful!