Don't forget: all those "small government" types would like to starve the agencies that do this analysis of the funds they need to operate. But somehow, the "free market" will fix any contamination issues.
4 There really has not been much good music produced in the last 20 years...most of the pop music has been by people who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket!
So don't listen to pop music. After about 20 years of not listening to any new music, Pandora has found lots of new music for me: it's just not pop music: my tastes are rather less mainstream.
In the UK, music publishers got a ruling that ripping CDs is illegal. What is the likely outcome of that?
If I can't legally buy the CD, rip it and listen to the music on my devices, then I might as well fire up a torrent app and skip the whole "buy the CD" part.
I think that blocking by the GFoC is inconsistent. I don't know the factors, but I suspect that source IP address may affect what sites are blocked.
The GFoC changes all the time, but when I was there a small number of years ago, OpenVPN was being blocked. It appeared at the time that the system had some heuristics to detect encrypted streams. I read shortly after that playing with the MTU values would allow the OpenVPN-based VPN to connect. I found that SSH was not being blocked, so I just used that.
In this case, he might have been able to see the sites from his house or office, but not at the speech.
At least when the GOP, "just cuts tax rates" I get to enjoy some of the benefit. Sure maybe not to the tune the industrial owner class enjoys but I get something.
Maybe you do get reduced tax payments, but you also suffer from reduced government spending. You suffer from regulations that don't get enforced, allowing things like companies to destroy the environment. You suffer from Wall Street ignoring regulations that are not enforced. You suffer in many ways, which likely outweigh the small benefit you get from reduced tax rates.
autorun is not the only vector. Years ago, I read about an attack that used vulnerabilities in the program (under Linux, I can't remember which desktop environment) that creates thumbnails from images. The advantage of this approach is that the USB stick can contain 1000s of images, each of which can try a slightly different attack.
Apparently you know very little about how a typical house in Scotland is constructed. This is evident from your comments about what one would have to do in order to insulate the walls.
Also, your Google skills are pretty poor, because Google tells me that, in the UK, typical cost for loft insulation is 300 pounds (yes, less than 1/10 of your figure) and cavity wall insulation is typically 4-500 pounds. Google also suggests that the reduction in energy use means that they would pay for themselves in 2-4 years.
So, as I asked earlier, where did you get those figures? You are the one with laughably inaccurate numbers.
You say people can buy more insulation. Okay, let's pretend that doubling all of the insulation on the house would offset half of the 15%-20% energy reduction. At a cost of $5,000 each. Making you pay $5,000 to double the insulation on your house has no effect on you, because you were just going to throw away that $5,000 otherwise, right?
$5000 for insulation? Where did you get that figure from? In fact the UK government has been insulating people's houses for free, or very low cost.
Did you consider that perhaps people can change their habits so that they need less energy? You assume a fixed demand, but as energy prices rise, it becomes more cost effective to spend money on things like home insulation.
Real demand is not a fixed number, it changes in response to price fluctuations. Your scenario where the "natural consumption" is unchanged when prices change is unrealistic.
Electricity consumption has dropped by 15% as prices have increased over the last five years in order to pay for the more-expensive renewables. If we add back the 15% of electricity people wanted but weren't able to use because it was too expensive, we get 35% of 35% = 12% of Ireland's energy needs were matched by their renewable production.
Sharp readers would notice that the article is about Scotland, not Ireland.
Are you seriously suggesting that, after electricity demand dropped 15%, the suppliers did not reduce electricity generation?
Let me suggest that you have a discussion with Messers Dunning and Kruger. Of course Apple is engaged in price fixing. The issue (as I alluded to many posts ago) is whether that price fixing is illegal. Vertical price fixing is not per-se illegal, but it can be, depending on the circumstances.
A distinct and perfectly normal situation from a legal standpoint.
It would be if the fixed price was what one party pays another. When the agreement is on how much a third party is to be charged, that's called price fixing.
No what I'm saying is two independent business entities *under contract* have agreed on the price to be charged *as per the contract* to a third party.
So you agree that Uber (and its drivers) are engaged in (possibly illegal) price fixing?
Trafficking is a risky and expensive proposition that requires an elaborate criminal network. Simply hiring local labor is surely a cheaper option - it's not as if most countries are lacking in unemployed women who are desperate for a job.
Almost a couple of decades ago, there was a story in the news of someone who was being prosecuted for using H-1B visas to bring prostitutes to the SF Bay area from India.
You can most definitely be an independent contractor and still need to obey the rules of the contract set out. I believe these include discussions on prices pretty much 100% of the time.
So what you are saying is that two independent business entities have agreed on the price to be charged to a third party? That's pretty much the textbook definition of price fixing.
It would not be price fixing if the drivers were employees.
Please tell me how you were able to get transfered to the English speaking Tmobile support! I need to know.
Are you trolling, or just an idiot?
T-Mobile has one of the best (least bad) customer support organizations. They did go through a period when customer support was poor, but nowadays it seems to be good again.
I don't think that those links support the idea that the change in architecture was not designed to enable wiretaps.
One of the links talks about discussions within Skype about handing data over to law enforcement. The actual implementation of moving to hosted supernodes started while Skype was owned by Silver Lake Partners. If you think that Silver Lake Partners is independent of Microsoft, I have a bridge to sell you.
And, for all their faults, Microsoft hasn't been ignoring rivals. Skype for Android is available and up to date, and if anything development improved on that after the Microsoft takeover
If your definition of "available" includes: so bloated that it doesn't really work on older Android phones, then, yes, it works. On my SII, notifications don't work. Starting the app takes ages (and I have to ensure the screen timeout doesn't interrupt the app while starting).
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Don't forget: all those "small government" types would like to starve the agencies that do this analysis of the funds they need to operate. But somehow, the "free market" will fix any contamination issues.
Waiting for those "troll" mods!
So don't listen to pop music. After about 20 years of not listening to any new music, Pandora has found lots of new music for me: it's just not pop music: my tastes are rather less mainstream.
Rule 34 says it exists.
In the UK, music publishers got a ruling that ripping CDs is illegal. What is the likely outcome of that?
If I can't legally buy the CD, rip it and listen to the music on my devices, then I might as well fire up a torrent app and skip the whole "buy the CD" part.
I don't believe those charts. California is running a budget surplus, yet according to the author, is only "Moderate" on short term solvency.
I think that blocking by the GFoC is inconsistent. I don't know the factors, but I suspect that source IP address may affect what sites are blocked.
The GFoC changes all the time, but when I was there a small number of years ago, OpenVPN was being blocked. It appeared at the time that the system had some heuristics to detect encrypted streams. I read shortly after that playing with the MTU values would allow the OpenVPN-based VPN to connect. I found that SSH was not being blocked, so I just used that.
In this case, he might have been able to see the sites from his house or office, but not at the speech.
Maybe you do get reduced tax payments, but you also suffer from reduced government spending. You suffer from regulations that don't get enforced, allowing things like companies to destroy the environment. You suffer from Wall Street ignoring regulations that are not enforced. You suffer in many ways, which likely outweigh the small benefit you get from reduced tax rates.
autorun is not the only vector. Years ago, I read about an attack that used vulnerabilities in the program (under Linux, I can't remember which desktop environment) that creates thumbnails from images. The advantage of this approach is that the USB stick can contain 1000s of images, each of which can try a slightly different attack.
Apparently you know very little about how a typical house in Scotland is constructed. This is evident from your comments about what one would have to do in order to insulate the walls.
Also, your Google skills are pretty poor, because Google tells me that, in the UK, typical cost for loft insulation is 300 pounds (yes, less than 1/10 of your figure) and cavity wall insulation is typically 4-500 pounds. Google also suggests that the reduction in energy use means that they would pay for themselves in 2-4 years.
So, as I asked earlier, where did you get those figures? You are the one with laughably inaccurate numbers.
Including those named in the Unaoil scandal, which has been conveniently pushed off the front pages.
You know that there is a word to describe something that costs money initially, but pays back over time, don't you? It's called an "investment".
And where did you get those cost figures? Why should we base an argument over figures that you pulled out (being polite here) thin air?
$5000 for insulation? Where did you get that figure from? In fact the UK government has been insulating people's houses for free, or very low cost.
Did you consider that perhaps people can change their habits so that they need less energy? You assume a fixed demand, but as energy prices rise, it becomes more cost effective to spend money on things like home insulation.
Real demand is not a fixed number, it changes in response to price fluctuations. Your scenario where the "natural consumption" is unchanged when prices change is unrealistic.
Also, Ireland?
Sharp readers would notice that the article is about Scotland, not Ireland.
Are you seriously suggesting that, after electricity demand dropped 15%, the suppliers did not reduce electricity generation?
Try again!
Let me suggest that you have a discussion with Messers Dunning and Kruger. Of course Apple is engaged in price fixing. The issue (as I alluded to many posts ago) is whether that price fixing is illegal. Vertical price fixing is not per-se illegal, but it can be, depending on the circumstances.
Google "vertical price fixing". Idiot.
It would be if the fixed price was what one party pays another. When the agreement is on how much a third party is to be charged, that's called price fixing.
So you agree that Uber (and its drivers) are engaged in (possibly illegal) price fixing?
Roaming? In the USA in 2011? While I don't have much experience outside the west coast, I think that roaming would be unlikely in 2011.
Almost a couple of decades ago, there was a story in the news of someone who was being prosecuted for using H-1B visas to bring prostitutes to the SF Bay area from India.
So what you are saying is that two independent business entities have agreed on the price to be charged to a third party? That's pretty much the textbook definition of price fixing.
It would not be price fixing if the drivers were employees.
Perhaps the real purpose of this lawsuit is to put Uber into the position of recognizing that its drivers are not "independent contractors".
Uber is probably going to attempt some kind of "Schrodinger's driver", where the drivers are simultaneously both contractors and employees.
Are you trolling, or just an idiot?
T-Mobile has one of the best (least bad) customer support organizations. They did go through a period when customer support was poor, but nowadays it seems to be good again.
I don't think that those links support the idea that the change in architecture was not designed to enable wiretaps.
One of the links talks about discussions within Skype about handing data over to law enforcement. The actual implementation of moving to hosted supernodes started while Skype was owned by Silver Lake Partners. If you think that Silver Lake Partners is independent of Microsoft, I have a bridge to sell you.
If your definition of "available" includes: so bloated that it doesn't really work on older Android phones, then, yes, it works. On my SII, notifications don't work. Starting the app takes ages (and I have to ensure the screen timeout doesn't interrupt the app while starting).