What happens when you have a blister or bad cut on the same finger you use for a fingerprint scanner? Or you have a cold and need to voice authenticate?
Congress. Because they have more resources and weapons at their disposal than all the geeks in the world combined.
Congress has more resources, but when it comes down to it, who ends up doing all the technical work? The geeks.
I hope it doesn't come down to it, but let the geeks implement exactly what the law requires/dictates. As the summary already indicates, the whole intent of the law has been circumvented with trivial workarounds. Pirates end up essentially unaffected and go on pirating, but the internet in general ends up dealing with the consequences when YouTube, Facebook, et al end up blocked/banned/hijacked.
Using XML files with no WYSIWYG editor? Screw that.
It's funny you say that because when I create a HTML application, I write it in XHTML (at least the HTML part of it). I haven't found a WYSIWYG editor that can create a decent app and have sane markup.
I'm sure Amazon and B&N will gladly hand over the keys to their bootloaders to allow HP's firmware to run on their branded devices. While we're at it, maybe Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony can all get together to allow any game to be played on any console.
They get retailers to offer their goods at ridiculous discounts. The retailers only get to keep part of the ridiculously discounted price, so they lose money on the deal in the hopes of attracting customers.
It depends on what the deal is. Two of the local deals that are currently running for my area is over half off on an acupuncture session at a chiropractor, and tickets for a local theatrical performance. Either deal has more or less fixed costs that are associated with the deal. If the doctor doesn't have a patient for that time slot, he makes $0. If the theater has an empty seat, they make $0. Making little is better than making zero. You just have to make sure that the making little doesn't bump a full paying client/customer.
If a whole bunch of people come up with the same invention at roughly the same time it becomes the perfect definition of TRIVIAL AND OBVIOUS.
I guess the invention of the telephone probably should have fallen in the same boat then, with Bell submitting his application just a few hours ahead of Elisha Gray.
There are many different backup strategies depending on what you are backing up and if your backups are designed for disaster recovery or archival of data.
Making some presumptions here to answer your questions:
They use a rotation of 5 or (7 drives if including weekends). Monday's drive is always the same, as is Tuesdays, Wednesday, etc. Each drive is kept offsite and only that day's drive is brought onsite while others remain offsite, or are taken back offsite.
If on Thursday the server goes down, they just request Wednesday's drive for the restore. If that backup was unsuccessful or the drive just happened to fail, then they lose Wednesday's business and go back to Tuesdays. Repeat until they get a successful restore.
Fridays basically are not an incremental backup. Well, the evening is, but the midday backup is a full backup and then is incrementally updated from the 1/2 day of business that night.
With this scheme, they can't restore a backup from a year ago. Depending on what is being backed up, they may not have to go back a year. Accounting information for instance from a year ago may be in the current backup set. If you are looking to restore something that was corrupted or deleted at an unknown point and wouldn't be in the current backup, then it would just take 1 disk out of the rotation once a month for instance and replace it with a new drive. A previous company I worked for recommend this strategy with point of sale systems we sold. We gave them a box of 10 backup tapes. 6 nightly backup tapes and 4 weekly tapes. The weekly tapes were in a 4-week rotation while the nightly were in a 1 week rotation. If they wanted to do a monthly rotation they could purchase additional tapes.
The $5 wasn't for the drive, it was for the enclosure and/or drive adapter.
Never mind the fact that FourSquare didn't come about for about a decade after this patent was granted.
I'm also fairly confident that a Predator Drone isn't pulling up a webpage that lists nearby locations to find the nearest Starbucks next to the insurgent it's tracking.
Costal Credit Union has "public" membership if you get a North Carolina Consumers Council Membership for $18. Not completely free but anyone can qualify for that. They have a variety of shared ATMs in the area according to their location maps that you could do a majority of your banking with, and if you needed to visit an actual location, there isn't one all that far away.
You've probably paid for it, just not explicitly through a membership fee. Around here, part of the property tax goes to the library for their annual budget. If you rent, you don't pay property taxes, but your landlord does which then is reflected in your rent.
If you just visit the library, then it's usually free. But if you check out something, the privilege is still paid for somehow.
People who are more well off tend to get diagnosed less frequently because they have the means to avoid such diagnoses.
You apparently have never been around a parent that has a ASD child. You don't "avoid such diagnoses" as avoiding them only makes life more difficult for the child as well as the parent. Depend on the degree of the ASD, it's not like other conditions where you can just live in denial and hope no one notices there might be an issue.
Given the choice between a license plate with rounded corners and limited buttons, and an empty trim ring and a hole where the plate should cover, I'd actually choose the former.
Growing up we had an old Amana microwave that was built like a tank that had that ability. I can't count the number of times that we used it on zero hands. My current microwave has about a thousand settings for all sorts of heating, defrosting, pre-cooking, different foods, different sizes, the whole shebang. I can count the number of times on two fingers that I've used anything other then "On". Once I used the defrost setting. It didn't work very well. The other time I made a bag of popcorn using the automatic setting. It was ok.
4.) BT must pay the costs for defending itself in the case, since it was insufficiently neutral by virtue of opposing the order.
So if BT didn't defend itself, staying sufficiently neutral, they automatically would have been ruled against and had to implement it. From BT's point of view, they were fucked from the beginning. There was no way to oppose them having to do something AND remain neutral.
Because it makes perfect sense that something that takes years to develop and perfect (e.g. a new medicine, very complex machine, etc) would have a maximum lifespan of 2 years to recoup the development cost.
Pharmaceutical company: Sure you can take this pill that will save your life. It will only cost you $5m/pill since we have to recoup the $1b development cost.
Is it that hard to go on craigslist and type "programmer" or "RN" or "CPA" and look at the salaries be offered and see if it's worth 4 years of college loans to make that much?
My wife is currently looking for a job after a decade off to raise 3 kids. She doesn't have a degree and doesn't have much current, relevant experience for anything specialized or an in-demand position. She's using a variety of job posting boards including Craigslist for a receptionist, office admin, etc type of job. She's found job postings from anywhere between $8/hr to $48k/year. So hey, attending a business college or similar to get a basic advanced education degree would be worth it to make $48k! In reality though, 90% of them turn out to be spam or phishing attempts and the remaining 10% that pay the much more realistic $8-10 usually are filled by people with 4 year degrees who take anything just to have some income.
It basically requires all website owners to sign up with Google to access Analytics and Webmaster Tools.
If they don't already have an analytics package, or a Google account to access the webmaster tools for their search engine, the site maintainer either doesn't care about their site's SE performance, or is a complete idiot, or both.
Honestly, how bad would she (and her family back home) feel if they send a "rescue flight" tomorrow, and it crashes on attempted landing, killing the crew? Or how bad would her family feel if it landed successfully, managed to take off again, but then the engines die halfway to the coast due to jelled fuel, killing the crew AND her?
They would feel probably the same way a stranded hiker would feel if the search and rescue team had an unfortunate accident looking for them. Or a homeowner would feel for a fire fighter that is lost in a home fire trying to save a trapped victim. Or an innocent civilian feels when a soldier trying to protect them is killed.
They are all doing their jobs that they signed up for.
I call shotgun for riding down to the center of the earth next to Hilary Swank. Now we just need to find a laser that can blast through solid rock quick enough.
Oh, so it's only IBM, Apple, Red Hat et al. I bet that is a relief for them that MSFT's lawyers won't further blacken a pitch black sky full of lawyers.
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What happens when you have a blister or bad cut on the same finger you use for a fingerprint scanner? Or you have a cold and need to voice authenticate?
You use a key.
Congress has more resources, but when it comes down to it, who ends up doing all the technical work? The geeks.
I hope it doesn't come down to it, but let the geeks implement exactly what the law requires/dictates. As the summary already indicates, the whole intent of the law has been circumvented with trivial workarounds. Pirates end up essentially unaffected and go on pirating, but the internet in general ends up dealing with the consequences when YouTube, Facebook, et al end up blocked/banned/hijacked.
Not to mention almost the exact same thing happened last year with the 2011 tax cuts. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
It's funny you say that because when I create a HTML application, I write it in XHTML (at least the HTML part of it). I haven't found a WYSIWYG editor that can create a decent app and have sane markup.
I'm sure Amazon and B&N will gladly hand over the keys to their bootloaders to allow HP's firmware to run on their branded devices. While we're at it, maybe Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony can all get together to allow any game to be played on any console.
It depends on what the deal is. Two of the local deals that are currently running for my area is over half off on an acupuncture session at a chiropractor, and tickets for a local theatrical performance. Either deal has more or less fixed costs that are associated with the deal. If the doctor doesn't have a patient for that time slot, he makes $0. If the theater has an empty seat, they make $0. Making little is better than making zero. You just have to make sure that the making little doesn't bump a full paying client/customer.
I guess the invention of the telephone probably should have fallen in the same boat then, with Bell submitting his application just a few hours ahead of Elisha Gray.
There are many different backup strategies depending on what you are backing up and if your backups are designed for disaster recovery or archival of data.
Making some presumptions here to answer your questions:
They use a rotation of 5 or (7 drives if including weekends). Monday's drive is always the same, as is Tuesdays, Wednesday, etc. Each drive is kept offsite and only that day's drive is brought onsite while others remain offsite, or are taken back offsite.
If on Thursday the server goes down, they just request Wednesday's drive for the restore. If that backup was unsuccessful or the drive just happened to fail, then they lose Wednesday's business and go back to Tuesdays. Repeat until they get a successful restore.
Fridays basically are not an incremental backup. Well, the evening is, but the midday backup is a full backup and then is incrementally updated from the 1/2 day of business that night.
With this scheme, they can't restore a backup from a year ago. Depending on what is being backed up, they may not have to go back a year. Accounting information for instance from a year ago may be in the current backup set. If you are looking to restore something that was corrupted or deleted at an unknown point and wouldn't be in the current backup, then it would just take 1 disk out of the rotation once a month for instance and replace it with a new drive. A previous company I worked for recommend this strategy with point of sale systems we sold. We gave them a box of 10 backup tapes. 6 nightly backup tapes and 4 weekly tapes. The weekly tapes were in a 4-week rotation while the nightly were in a 1 week rotation. If they wanted to do a monthly rotation they could purchase additional tapes.
The $5 wasn't for the drive, it was for the enclosure and/or drive adapter.
You mean like the the "Sell on Amazon" button that is about 4" below the Add to Cart button on just about every page?
Never mind the fact that FourSquare didn't come about for about a decade after this patent was granted.
I'm also fairly confident that a Predator Drone isn't pulling up a webpage that lists nearby locations to find the nearest Starbucks next to the insurgent it's tracking.
All my "purchases" are actually made by overseas family members who give me gifts on a regular basis. Tax circumvented under current procedures.
Costal Credit Union has "public" membership if you get a North Carolina Consumers Council Membership for $18. Not completely free but anyone can qualify for that. They have a variety of shared ATMs in the area according to their location maps that you could do a majority of your banking with, and if you needed to visit an actual location, there isn't one all that far away.
You've probably paid for it, just not explicitly through a membership fee. Around here, part of the property tax goes to the library for their annual budget. If you rent, you don't pay property taxes, but your landlord does which then is reflected in your rent.
If you just visit the library, then it's usually free. But if you check out something, the privilege is still paid for somehow.
You apparently have never been around a parent that has a ASD child. You don't "avoid such diagnoses" as avoiding them only makes life more difficult for the child as well as the parent. Depend on the degree of the ASD, it's not like other conditions where you can just live in denial and hope no one notices there might be an issue.
You mean like of like how payphones, prepaid cell phones, google voice, or email->SMS gateways can have have been used for years?
Given the choice between a license plate with rounded corners and limited buttons, and an empty trim ring and a hole where the plate should cover, I'd actually choose the former.
Just a guess here, but maybe for new phones?
Growing up we had an old Amana microwave that was built like a tank that had that ability. I can't count the number of times that we used it on zero hands. My current microwave has about a thousand settings for all sorts of heating, defrosting, pre-cooking, different foods, different sizes, the whole shebang. I can count the number of times on two fingers that I've used anything other then "On". Once I used the defrost setting. It didn't work very well. The other time I made a bag of popcorn using the automatic setting. It was ok.
So if BT didn't defend itself, staying sufficiently neutral, they automatically would have been ruled against and had to implement it. From BT's point of view, they were fucked from the beginning. There was no way to oppose them having to do something AND remain neutral.
Because it makes perfect sense that something that takes years to develop and perfect (e.g. a new medicine, very complex machine, etc) would have a maximum lifespan of 2 years to recoup the development cost.
Pharmaceutical company: Sure you can take this pill that will save your life. It will only cost you $5m/pill since we have to recoup the $1b development cost.
My wife is currently looking for a job after a decade off to raise 3 kids. She doesn't have a degree and doesn't have much current, relevant experience for anything specialized or an in-demand position. She's using a variety of job posting boards including Craigslist for a receptionist, office admin, etc type of job. She's found job postings from anywhere between $8/hr to $48k/year. So hey, attending a business college or similar to get a basic advanced education degree would be worth it to make $48k! In reality though, 90% of them turn out to be spam or phishing attempts and the remaining 10% that pay the much more realistic $8-10 usually are filled by people with 4 year degrees who take anything just to have some income.
If they don't already have an analytics package, or a Google account to access the webmaster tools for their search engine, the site maintainer either doesn't care about their site's SE performance, or is a complete idiot, or both.
They would feel probably the same way a stranded hiker would feel if the search and rescue team had an unfortunate accident looking for them. Or a homeowner would feel for a fire fighter that is lost in a home fire trying to save a trapped victim. Or an innocent civilian feels when a soldier trying to protect them is killed.
They are all doing their jobs that they signed up for.
I call shotgun for riding down to the center of the earth next to Hilary Swank. Now we just need to find a laser that can blast through solid rock quick enough.
Oh, so it's only IBM, Apple, Red Hat et al. I bet that is a relief for them that MSFT's lawyers won't further blacken a pitch black sky full of lawyers.