The only thing new it brings to the table is that it feels more like a replacement of SMS. It's easy to install (they obviously prioritized ease of use over security) and it works with your contacts that are already stored on the phone.
It doesn't have to be a fine. They can just charge for the service. The $75 fee is firefighter service insurance. If people don't pay, they could charge the homeowner whatever turns out to be the actual cost of the service (the annual cost of having the resources available divided by the average number of fires per year, plus a surcharge for "forgetting" to pay). It might be several thousand dollars, and it's up to the homeowner to decide whether his house is worth paying for the service or not.
Letting his house burn and refusing to take the $75 fee without offering an alternative is not the best course of action, even when they have good reason to be mad at him. Of course, they cannot decide the price of the service on the spot, it is something that they should have thought in advance.
...and so they are willing to trade a lot of time in exchange for a little monetary compensation. That fact is behind those market segmentation strategies that make you jump through hoops (like clipping coupons from the newspaper or collecting cookie wrappers) to get a discount. AMD is not going to worry about this, as the existence of this new segment could mean more sales of the lottery chips.
I've done the Power Supply drive of shame a few times, when I lived in an apartment and had a 1 mile commute to work. I had to go back and fetch the power supply, to be able to work more than one hour. Now I have a newer notebook with a battery that runs for two hours, but I moved to a house 30 miles to the north - hopefully I will never forget the power supply again!
This enormous expenditure of resources in such an unreliable defense is ridiculous. I was hoping to visit the US sometime, but what I heard of the security checks at the borders makes me scary, even though I've got nothing to hide.
It comes from companies like Acacia, that could receive money like SCO did as payment for filing lawsuits against M$ enemies (Linux and the rest of FLOSS projects). And Acacia has a stronger business than SCO, can survive longer and has a large portfolio of patents to use instead of the ludicrous SCO claims.
Here in Argentina having your house completely built from scratch may take less time and effort than getting the construction permit...insane! So you have your new house and you don't have the permit, and the government sues you because you are avoiding taxes on the house, but it's the government fault because they didn't give you the permit on time. Bottom line: if you want compliance, you can't have it: taxes are too high, bureaucracy doesn't work, government offices are filled to the ceiling with unprocessed paperwork.
You don't fight tax evasion schemes with tax bills...you can send a tax bill to someone who might have forgot to pay, or to someone who might have misunderstood tax law, not to someone who deliberately mounted its operations in a way that avoids paying taxes.
I live in Argentina and we have a similar situation here. We have retarded morons as representants (diputados, senadores, legisladores, concejales) who find it too easy to solve problems by giving away what is not theirs to give, raising public spending and taxes, and not worrying the least about efficiency.
They also know how to solve problems by imposing obligations to everyone else, decreasing bussiness efficiency instead of having the state serve its purpose of helping us all.
I think you got it the wrong way: rich people can fight natural selection spending money to keep genetically impaired persons alive, which gives them the ability to reproduce and keeps their genes in the pool. Poor people with genetic defects may not have the resources to stay alive long enough to reproduce, which could paradoxically lead to the appearance of a stronger subspecies due to natural selection among poor people (assuming that poor people's descendants tend to be poor).
There are a few differences between cars and CDs: * Cars are not for kids, CDs are. * Cars are still useful after you scratch them (at least for transportation), CDs are not. * Cars are not licenced, they are bought. * You buy the car to use the car itself, you buy the CD to run the game that is *inside* the CD. * The car manufacturer does not restrict what you can do with your car - you can show it to anyone, take pictures od it and publish them on the internet, sell it, rent it, lend it, use it in another country, fill it with gas from any company - anything provided that you comply with applicable laws.
One might thing that spoofing the return address for a user that requested an email to be sent is not the same as falsifying headers, as the user himself requested the message to be sent.
Sometimes you ask them a simple question like "do you know when the network problem with new mobile phone will be solved?" and they give you completely inane answers like "it's gonna take several days, a technician must climb the tower to fix the antenna". No kidding.
...no matter the costs to the company. They want to be absolutely safe by obtaining SOX compliance in a way that is simple for them, even if it complicates other people's job by a factor of 10. And the other people finally "delegate" this complication to IT people, like in "the program must verify that the interface transferred all the data to SAP correctly". And why doesn't the user check it himself? Or even define how the program should do the verification?
Problem is, there will always be a risk as long as there is some freedom. And I don't think cutting freedom by half will cut risk by half or more, but it may cut business by more than half. I mean, restricting freedom will have a greater impact on legal business than on terrorism. And those restrictions can be imposed on foreign travelers, but will ultimately affect US citizens in one way or another.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, I remember I thought that the greatest victory for Al-Qaeda lied not in the fact that they had conducted a successful attack on the center of economic power in the capitalist world, or that they had killed thousands of civilian "enemies". Their victory was that the greatest damage to the US would be inflicted by their own government: because of an extreme aversion to risk, the government would hurt their own society, taking away their very strength by restricting their freedoms in a futile attempt to prevent future attacks.
It's not that the US doesn't have the right to regulate who and why enters the US. The problem is that, in the hurry, the US will throw the baby with the bathwater.
...what's so original about this issue, that deserves to be posted to Slashdot? There isn't even a FA! If the guy wanted to publicize his work (he is a developer for the linked SF project), he could at least have written an article with a concrete problem (even if the problem was made up in order to show the solution), not just some generic rant about how tricky multithreaded "programmation" is.
Actor hired by the TSA, carrying proper ID, passes a false bomb:
The actor and bomb, not so easily identified as a fake threat because of a misunderstanding, are considered a real threat, the actor is shot down by a police officer and the airport is closed three days for an extensive investigation.
Slashdot Mirror
The only thing new it brings to the table is that it feels more like a replacement of SMS. It's easy to install (they obviously prioritized ease of use over security) and it works with your contacts that are already stored on the phone.
It doesn't have to be a fine. They can just charge for the service. The $75 fee is firefighter service insurance. If people don't pay, they could charge the homeowner whatever turns out to be the actual cost of the service (the annual cost of having the resources available divided by the average number of fires per year, plus a surcharge for "forgetting" to pay). It might be several thousand dollars, and it's up to the homeowner to decide whether his house is worth paying for the service or not.
Letting his house burn and refusing to take the $75 fee without offering an alternative is not the best course of action, even when they have good reason to be mad at him. Of course, they cannot decide the price of the service on the spot, it is something that they should have thought in advance.
...and so they are willing to trade a lot of time in exchange for a little monetary compensation. That fact is behind those market segmentation strategies that make you jump through hoops (like clipping coupons from the newspaper or collecting cookie wrappers) to get a discount. AMD is not going to worry about this, as the existence of this new segment could mean more sales of the lottery chips.
I've done the Power Supply drive of shame a few times, when I lived in an apartment and had a 1 mile commute to work. I had to go back and fetch the power supply, to be able to work more than one hour. Now I have a newer notebook with a battery that runs for two hours, but I moved to a house 30 miles to the north - hopefully I will never forget the power supply again!
This enormous expenditure of resources in such an unreliable defense is ridiculous. I was hoping to visit the US sometime, but what I heard of the security checks at the borders makes me scary, even though I've got nothing to hide.
Next thing we know cars will have the fuel tank locked and only a government official will be able to extract gasoline from your car.
It comes from companies like Acacia, that could receive money like SCO did as payment for filing lawsuits against M$ enemies (Linux and the rest of FLOSS projects). And Acacia has a stronger business than SCO, can survive longer and has a large portfolio of patents to use instead of the ludicrous SCO claims.
Here in Argentina having your house completely built from scratch may take less time and effort than getting the construction permit...insane! So you have your new house and you don't have the permit, and the government sues you because you are avoiding taxes on the house, but it's the government fault because they didn't give you the permit on time. Bottom line: if you want compliance, you can't have it: taxes are too high, bureaucracy doesn't work, government offices are filled to the ceiling with unprocessed paperwork.
You don't fight tax evasion schemes with tax bills...you can send a tax bill to someone who might have forgot to pay, or to someone who might have misunderstood tax law, not to someone who deliberately mounted its operations in a way that avoids paying taxes.
They also know how to solve problems by imposing obligations to everyone else, decreasing bussiness efficiency instead of having the state serve its purpose of helping us all.
Why is this offtopic? I found it funny...that was one of the fundamentals of Wikipedia, and now it has to do without it, sort of.
A couple hundred shares would be 10 dollars...did you mean a couple hundred bucks?
I think you got it the wrong way: rich people can fight natural selection spending money to keep genetically impaired persons alive, which gives them the ability to reproduce and keeps their genes in the pool. Poor people with genetic defects may not have the resources to stay alive long enough to reproduce, which could paradoxically lead to the appearance of a stronger subspecies due to natural selection among poor people (assuming that poor people's descendants tend to be poor).
My Start icon is in the left upper corner...does it mean that I am safe? Maybe I can confuse the dark forces....
There are a few differences between cars and CDs:
* Cars are not for kids, CDs are.
* Cars are still useful after you scratch them (at least for transportation), CDs are not.
* Cars are not licenced, they are bought.
* You buy the car to use the car itself, you buy the CD to run the game that is *inside* the CD.
* The car manufacturer does not restrict what you can do with your car - you can show it to anyone, take pictures od it and publish them on the internet, sell it, rent it, lend it, use it in another country, fill it with gas from any company - anything provided that you comply with applicable laws.
The Disney Corporation backed down yesterday after banning grieving parents from putting Winnie the Pooh on their stillborn baby's headstone.
One might thing that spoofing the return address for a user that requested an email to be sent is not the same as falsifying headers, as the user himself requested the message to be sent.
Both insightful and informative! And interesting too!
Sometimes you ask them a simple question like "do you know when the network problem with new mobile phone will be solved?" and they give you completely inane answers like "it's gonna take several days, a technician must climb the tower to fix the antenna". No kidding.
...no matter the costs to the company. They want to be absolutely safe by obtaining SOX compliance in a way that is simple for them, even if it complicates other people's job by a factor of 10. And the other people finally "delegate" this complication to IT people, like in "the program must verify that the interface transferred all the data to SAP correctly". And why doesn't the user check it himself? Or even define how the program should do the verification?
src.zip doesn't have the sources to the sun.* packages, which contain classes that are not part of the API.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, I remember I thought that the greatest victory for Al-Qaeda lied not in the fact that they had conducted a successful attack on the center of economic power in the capitalist world, or that they had killed thousands of civilian "enemies". Their victory was that the greatest damage to the US would be inflicted by their own government: because of an extreme aversion to risk, the government would hurt their own society, taking away their very strength by restricting their freedoms in a futile attempt to prevent future attacks.
It's not that the US doesn't have the right to regulate who and why enters the US. The problem is that, in the hurry, the US will throw the baby with the bathwater.
...what's so original about this issue, that deserves to be posted to Slashdot? There isn't even a FA! If the guy wanted to publicize his work (he is a developer for the linked SF project), he could at least have written an article with a concrete problem (even if the problem was made up in order to show the solution), not just some generic rant about how tricky multithreaded "programmation" is.
The actor and bomb, not so easily identified as a fake threat because of a misunderstanding, are considered a real threat, the actor is shot down by a police officer and the airport is closed three days for an extensive investigation.
I also did RTFA and followed the link and, not being from canada or the US, I didn't understand who she is and what she did.