The phenomenon at play is that the client and health care providers are being disassociated with each other from market forces. This is what happens when the system becomes so complex with laws (some necessary, while others are for political gain) that the natural system of supply and demand become disassociated from each other.
If we paid for our health care like we did for our automotive maintenance, I seriously doubt we would be in the situation we are now in.
Trend Micro makes a killer product called Worry Free. It's an Anti-virus suite (has Exchange agent too) for SBS and stand-alone file servers. I like it a lot. Technical support if needed, is very friendly and easy to work with. For larger enterprise environments where you need to start locking down stuff, Symantec EndPoint would be a proper choice.
Just last week, I've installed a trial version of Trend Micro Titanium. It's lightweight and doesn't drag the OS at boot. Very non-intrusive too. I think they're trying to mimic Security Essentials in that regards. If my client likes it (so far they do) they will pay for a subscription at the end of the trial period.
BTW, the previously had MS Security Essentials on their box. A fake AV slipped pasted it. Not to say it couldn't have slipped by Trend Micro as well, but...
OTOH, look how relaxed MS has been with security. Sure, they've released patch after patch and new features. But, their OS philosophy by nature makes it an insecure OS, and thus is coded that way.
In other words, MS Security Essentials may be free, but just how good is it? I've seen plenty of Fake AVs slipping through it. Once the 3rd party AV vendors become starved out of the market, you wont HAVE any other option but to stick with an MS AV solution.
Until MS re-thinks OS security from a philosophical and design standpoint, I will always use a 3rd party AV solution. In such a cut throat industry, they have no choice but to develop a nice product with plenty of AV and security R&D behind their product offerings.
And no, my clients don't want to run Mac or Linux. I can't just yank them off Windows. They wont let me.
You mean they are relying on higher RPMs with fewer pistons to create additional HP. Which makes sense given how some i4 engines can approach the same levels of power to that of a v6. But notice the displacement of these i4s. The pistons are massive in comparison to the smaller ones in a v6. By consolidating your displacement into fewer cylinders, there's less friction robbing you of power.
Running at higher RPMs is not fuel efficient by itself. But depending on the cylinder count and overall displacement, I suppose in theory, a higher revving i4 can be more fuel efficient compared to a low revving v6. Again, buy virtue of less friction and reciprocating mass.
Since the invention of the fuel injector, gasoline has been metered appropriately. Prior to that, cars used a carburetors which tended to run the fuel mixture too rich. This causes excessive washing of oil from the cylinder walls thus causing exponential wear and tear on the engine depending on RPM.
Now days with tight clearances, improved metallurgy, oils, and computer controlled injection; running high RPMs will not have that much of an effect on its life. If anything, you suffer fuel economy.
I used to drive my 99 Miata like I stole it. I actually tried to destroy the engine. I would float the valves often for the hell of it. This lasted for about 160K miles before I got rid of it (bought it used with 34K on it). Spark plugs indicate a clean burn (nice tan color), valve train and cam lobes in primo condition, and excellent compression on all four. Yup, engine tech has come a long way.
Ya, that's a question for the legal crowd. I have no idea. I'm guessing "Yes" because they're a franchised local cable co, but primary for account reasons. Only in this case, the logs where turned against them.
One things for sure, she was pissed having to peck all those IPs into an Excel spreedsheet and export them to a CSV format. I remember her trying to scan with OCR and perform a cut/paste. No dice. They way their IPs were formatted in the print-outs made it difficult from what she told me.
Second, no ISP wants to rat out their customer. Unless of course it came from another Time Warner division. But even that gets complicated. So I would imagine anyways.
About five years go, I worked for Time Warner in Austin, TX. As I was going on break, I walked by my managers cubicle to shoot the breeze and noticed a 5" stack of paperwork on her desk. I humorously asked if my yearly review was in that stack.
She replied with a sigh "No, they're a bunch of subpoena by the RIAA and MPAA. By law, we have to comply with the court order to match the requested IP recorded on a specific date to our customers account". Damn!
My guess is that this is how people get tracked down and served for the legal proceedings to start.
Uhuh, right. Because only the Good' ol US of A can make or break a small island nation.
Seriously, they have Europe and an entire South American contenent to do business with. Even with them acting as the middle-men to sell goods and services from America to Cuba, it still wouldn't be enough to crush Cuba.
No, the blame is squarely on that fucked up communist regime that asserts power and control over the local population.
Just wait till Venezuela falls. I'm sure ass-wipes such as yourself will blame the US on that. People like you are so delusional and transparent, it's sad!
They're not after settlement money, because that's chump change in comparison to the stream of revenue they would normally get pre-Napster days. No, the goal is to force people into bankruptcy as a message to all.
As others have said, it's not about justice. It's about performing a public crucifixion to instill fear into the minds of any would-be downloader of "their" music. It's all about protecting a cash-cow business model they see slipping away.
Below is from an e-mail forwarded to me. I haven't verified the authenticity of its contents. None the less, I think it's worth posting.
In January 2007, Democrat Keith Ellison, (D - MN) was sworn into the House of Representatives. For the ceremonial photo afterwards, he chose to place his hand on a 1764 copy of the Quran, once the property of Thomas Jefferson. One assumes he felt this would soothe those who opposed him being the first not to place his hand on the Holy Bible, but instead on the Quran... he should have read his history on WHY Mr. Jefferson had a copy of the Quran in his possession... he might not have felt so comfortable with his choice... I hope you will take the time to read why...
Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the Quran, the Muslim book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States during his ceremonial swearing-in.
Capitol Hill staff said Ellison's swearing-in photo opportunity drew more media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S. House. Ellison represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota.
The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of America 's founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of the Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books archived in the library.
Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in college, said he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed that "a visionary like Jefferson " believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources.
There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Tripoli.
Ellison's use of Jefferson's Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is mostly forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans in the Islamic "Barbary" states.
Over the course of 10 centuries, Muslim pirates cruised the African and Mediterranean coastline, pillaging villages and seizing slaves.
The taking of slaves in pre-dawn raids on unsuspecting coastal villages had a high casualty rate. It was typical of Muslim raiders to kill off as many of the "non-Muslim" older men and women as possible so the preferred "booty" of only young women and children could be collected.
Young non-Muslim women were targeted because of their value as concubines in Islamic markets. Islamic law provides for the sexual interests of Muslim men by allowing them to take as many as four wives at one time and to have as many concubines as their fortunes allow.
Boys, as young as 9 or 10 years old, were often mutilated to create eunuchs who would bring higher prices in the slave markets of the Middle East . Muslim slave traders created "eunuch stations" along major African slave routes so the necessary surgery could be performed. It was estimated that only a small number of the boys subjected to the mutilation survived after the surgery.
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria.
Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States . Congress appointed a special commiss
That's a real one-sided (interesting) POV, but it's extremely narrow in scope and doesn't even come close to explaining the centuries of feuds between Western and Islamic culture. Allow me to direct your attention to a better explanation below. And it's a moderate one at that.
As for the extremists, freedom is an act of sin. Freedom is the embodiment of self determination and thus hubris in the eyes of Allah. But again, the link I've provided provides a moderate explanation for the entire Islamic culture going way back when.
Ideally governments want to give their livestock just enough freedom to maximize profits and no more.
Very true. A perfect example of that is China. The CCP knows that their members will become richer if people have more freedom needed to grow the GDP. But not so much freedom as to be a threat to CCP power.
It's looking like Raul Castro is starting to acknowledge giving Cuba more freedom in order to jump-start its failed economy. If that nation collapse, he'll be king of nothingness.
Unlike the Taliban (freedom is a sin as it's an act of hubris and afront to Allah's will), the British Gov doesn't hate freedom. They fear it!!! Their actions and the laws in place make that notion crystal clear.
While we may never see a machine where you can convert matter and data into a fully functioning product in our lifetime, we may come real close.
I'm sure Ferrari would be rather pissed if I downloaded the replication schematics (BIN file?) and replicated a shiny new sports car for the cost of raw materials and energy to produce it. In short, I'm stealing their R&D. Essentially, I've committed piracy by any other name.
Now if I purchased a valid license from Ferrari, single user contract and all. Hey, why not if it's cheaper?
When you're young and in school, you're full of idealism and politics is nothing but a trendy topic. When you're older, on your own, and face finical devastation *because* of politicians and they laws they pass, *THAT* is when you're compelled to vote for change.
That's the difference between looking at a fire vs. having one burn under your ass.
That not funny. That's a very prophetic. Such a scenario is the future! We live in a world where Intellectual property is worth more in man hours than raw materials themselves.
Weighted on Earth. The only Earth in the universe. Bad idea.
Perhaps something more universal, like with a centrifuge where the pull of 1 liter of water at X length from center at Y RPMS. Better yet, we need to our measurement system redefined based on all universal constants.
Slashdot Mirror
Apple app that look and feels like websites with a back-end cloud hosting content. Think AOL hell all over again. It' where the old become the new.
Ya ya, flamebait and all that... Someones gotta throw chum in the water from time to time. :)
News at 11. Humans are social animals. Playing the social game is the best way to get laid. Shocking I tell ya!
The phenomenon at play is that the client and health care providers are being disassociated with each other from market forces. This is what happens when the system becomes so complex with laws (some necessary, while others are for political gain) that the natural system of supply and demand become disassociated from each other.
If we paid for our health care like we did for our automotive maintenance, I seriously doubt we would be in the situation we are now in.
Or maybe the new "big bang" forked into an alternate dimension. If so, does that make us Gods? Ponder that!
What else to say?
Captain Picard was French while the actor that played him (Patrick Stewart) was British.
Trend Micro makes a killer product called Worry Free. It's an Anti-virus suite (has Exchange agent too) for SBS and stand-alone file servers. I like it a lot. Technical support if needed, is very friendly and easy to work with. For larger enterprise environments where you need to start locking down stuff, Symantec EndPoint would be a proper choice.
Just last week, I've installed a trial version of Trend Micro Titanium. It's lightweight and doesn't drag the OS at boot. Very non-intrusive too. I think they're trying to mimic Security Essentials in that regards. If my client likes it (so far they do) they will pay for a subscription at the end of the trial period.
BTW, the previously had MS Security Essentials on their box. A fake AV slipped pasted it. Not to say it couldn't have slipped by Trend Micro as well, but...
OTOH, look how relaxed MS has been with security. Sure, they've released patch after patch and new features. But, their OS philosophy by nature makes it an insecure OS, and thus is coded that way.
In other words, MS Security Essentials may be free, but just how good is it? I've seen plenty of Fake AVs slipping through it. Once the 3rd party AV vendors become starved out of the market, you wont HAVE any other option but to stick with an MS AV solution.
Until MS re-thinks OS security from a philosophical and design standpoint, I will always use a 3rd party AV solution. In such a cut throat industry, they have no choice but to develop a nice product with plenty of AV and security R&D behind their product offerings.
And no, my clients don't want to run Mac or Linux. I can't just yank them off Windows. They wont let me.
You mean they are relying on higher RPMs with fewer pistons to create additional HP. Which makes sense given how some i4 engines can approach the same levels of power to that of a v6. But notice the displacement of these i4s. The pistons are massive in comparison to the smaller ones in a v6. By consolidating your displacement into fewer cylinders, there's less friction robbing you of power.
Running at higher RPMs is not fuel efficient by itself. But depending on the cylinder count and overall displacement, I suppose in theory, a higher revving i4 can be more fuel efficient compared to a low revving v6. Again, buy virtue of less friction and reciprocating mass.
No, they're shit is what they are. And fuck HP for requiring a 200+MB base driver install package. Bastards!
Since the invention of the fuel injector, gasoline has been metered appropriately. Prior to that, cars used a carburetors which tended to run the fuel mixture too rich. This causes excessive washing of oil from the cylinder walls thus causing exponential wear and tear on the engine depending on RPM.
Now days with tight clearances, improved metallurgy, oils, and computer controlled injection; running high RPMs will not have that much of an effect on its life. If anything, you suffer fuel economy.
I used to drive my 99 Miata like I stole it. I actually tried to destroy the engine. I would float the valves often for the hell of it. This lasted for about 160K miles before I got rid of it (bought it used with 34K on it). Spark plugs indicate a clean burn (nice tan color), valve train and cam lobes in primo condition, and excellent compression on all four. Yup, engine tech has come a long way.
Ya, that's a question for the legal crowd. I have no idea. I'm guessing "Yes" because they're a franchised local cable co, but primary for account reasons. Only in this case, the logs where turned against them.
One things for sure, she was pissed having to peck all those IPs into an Excel spreedsheet and export them to a CSV format. I remember her trying to scan with OCR and perform a cut/paste. No dice. They way their IPs were formatted in the print-outs made it difficult from what she told me.
Second, no ISP wants to rat out their customer. Unless of course it came from another Time Warner division. But even that gets complicated. So I would imagine anyways.
About five years go, I worked for Time Warner in Austin, TX. As I was going on break, I walked by my managers cubicle to shoot the breeze and noticed a 5" stack of paperwork on her desk. I humorously asked if my yearly review was in that stack.
She replied with a sigh "No, they're a bunch of subpoena by the RIAA and MPAA. By law, we have to comply with the court order to match the requested IP recorded on a specific date to our customers account". Damn!
My guess is that this is how people get tracked down and served for the legal proceedings to start.
Uhuh, right. Because only the Good' ol US of A can make or break a small island nation.
Seriously, they have Europe and an entire South American contenent to do business with. Even with them acting as the middle-men to sell goods and services from America to Cuba, it still wouldn't be enough to crush Cuba.
No, the blame is squarely on that fucked up communist regime that asserts power and control over the local population.
Just wait till Venezuela falls. I'm sure ass-wipes such as yourself will blame the US on that. People like you are so delusional and transparent, it's sad!
They're not after settlement money, because that's chump change in comparison to the stream of revenue they would normally get pre-Napster days. No, the goal is to force people into bankruptcy as a message to all.
As others have said, it's not about justice. It's about performing a public crucifixion to instill fear into the minds of any would-be downloader of "their" music. It's all about protecting a cash-cow business model they see slipping away.
Below is from an e-mail forwarded to me. I haven't verified the authenticity of its contents. None the less, I think it's worth posting.
In January 2007, Democrat Keith Ellison, (D - MN) was sworn into the House of Representatives. For the ceremonial photo afterwards, he chose to place his hand on a 1764 copy of the Quran, once the property of Thomas Jefferson. One assumes he felt this would soothe those who opposed him being the first not to place his hand on the Holy Bible, but instead on the Quran ... he should have read his history on WHY Mr. Jefferson had a copy of the Quran in his possession ... he might not have felt so comfortable with his choice ... I hope you will take the time to read why ...
Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the Quran, the Muslim book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States during his ceremonial swearing-in.
Capitol Hill staff said Ellison's swearing-in photo opportunity drew more media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S. House. Ellison represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota.
The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of America 's founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of the Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books archived in the library.
Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in college, said he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed that "a visionary like Jefferson " believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources.
There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Tripoli .
Ellison's use of Jefferson's Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is mostly forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans in the Islamic "Barbary" states.
Over the course of 10 centuries, Muslim pirates cruised the African and Mediterranean coastline, pillaging villages and seizing slaves.
The taking of slaves in pre-dawn raids on unsuspecting coastal villages had a high casualty rate. It was typical of Muslim raiders to kill off as many of the "non-Muslim" older men and women as possible so the preferred "booty" of only young women and children could be collected.
Young non-Muslim women were targeted because of their value as concubines in Islamic markets. Islamic law provides for the sexual interests of Muslim men by allowing them to take as many as four wives at one time and to have as many concubines as their fortunes allow.
Boys, as young as 9 or 10 years old, were often mutilated to create eunuchs who would bring higher prices in the slave markets of the Middle East . Muslim slave traders created "eunuch stations" along major African slave routes so the necessary surgery could be performed. It was estimated that only a small number of the boys subjected to the mutilation survived after the surgery.
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria .
Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States . Congress appointed a special commiss
That's a real one-sided (interesting) POV, but it's extremely narrow in scope and doesn't even come close to explaining the centuries of feuds between Western and Islamic culture. Allow me to direct your attention to a better explanation below. And it's a moderate one at that.
http://www.fbn.bc.ca/muslwest.html
As for the extremists, freedom is an act of sin. Freedom is the embodiment of self determination and thus hubris in the eyes of Allah. But again, the link I've provided provides a moderate explanation for the entire Islamic culture going way back when.
The whole series was great and all, but the story also very depressing. Talk about slitting your wrists. Damn.
Ideally governments want to give their livestock just enough freedom to maximize profits and no more.
Very true. A perfect example of that is China. The CCP knows that their members will become richer if people have more freedom needed to grow the GDP. But not so much freedom as to be a threat to CCP power.
It's looking like Raul Castro is starting to acknowledge giving Cuba more freedom in order to jump-start its failed economy. If that nation collapse, he'll be king of nothingness.
Not one to cast stones, but I'd say the US gov fears freedom too.
Unlike the Taliban (freedom is a sin as it's an act of hubris and afront to Allah's will), the British Gov doesn't hate freedom. They fear it!!! Their actions and the laws in place make that notion crystal clear.
Baby steps. It takes baby steps.
While we may never see a machine where you can convert matter and data into a fully functioning product in our lifetime, we may come real close.
I'm sure Ferrari would be rather pissed if I downloaded the replication schematics (BIN file?) and replicated a shiny new sports car for the cost of raw materials and energy to produce it. In short, I'm stealing their R&D. Essentially, I've committed piracy by any other name.
Now if I purchased a valid license from Ferrari, single user contract and all. Hey, why not if it's cheaper?
When you're young and in school, you're full of idealism and politics is nothing but a trendy topic. When you're older, on your own, and face finical devastation *because* of politicians and they laws they pass, *THAT* is when you're compelled to vote for change.
That's the difference between looking at a fire vs. having one burn under your ass.
That not funny. That's a very prophetic. Such a scenario is the future! We live in a world where Intellectual property is worth more in man hours than raw materials themselves.
Weighted on Earth. The only Earth in the universe. Bad idea.
Perhaps something more universal, like with a centrifuge where the pull of 1 liter of water at X length from center at Y RPMS. Better yet, we need to our measurement system redefined based on all universal constants.