I used to work in the UK and am a little familiar with the Data Protection Act. We could not access the system from outside of the UK since the systems contained information regarding UK tax data. It's very different over here. I was surprised to find out that large US tax firms send their work over seas to get processed. I don't believe that we have a Data Protection Act which is as robust as the UK.
You are absolutely correct about law suits needing to be filed. My wife and I work for two large corporations. I am talking name brands that everyone knows. I was talking to her about a project that I was working on and how the users info is sorted in the Database by credit card number. There are a few things wrong with this. From a non-security stand point people have more than one credit card. So you would have plenty of duplicates. From a security standpoint there were loads of problems. Such as the data would be FTP'd from the mainframes to the unix midrange servers. So all of that data would be distributed about the enterprise. Makes absoutetley no sense. Especially since there was no reason for the application I was working on to know a credit card number. The only data needed was name and products bought. When talking with my wife about how bad it was she told me that it was the same way in her company. I can only think that these companies built there systems a long time ago and no one has taken on the ambitious project of updating their procedures. From a career standpoint I can't blame them. There is not a big demand to secure these systems better. It would be a huge effort with little reward. If things didn't work your career would be over.
If law suits start being filed there will be a sudden demand to get these systems more secure. It's always annoyed me that financial companies have charged us for their "credit protection" services. I have always felt that if my ID was stolen it would most likely be the fault of a financial institution and not me.
Looks like they are phasing out their monocrhome models. Judging by their choice to drop the 40GB B/W and their pricing scheme of a color model now being only $50 dollars more than the 20GB B/W
The prius batteries are estimated to last 12 years. They are warrantied by Toyota for 8 years. They accomplish this by putting in safe guards to make sure the battery does not completely discharge etc. If proper care is taken one can get a very long life out of current batteries. I am guess similar tatics can be taken with these batteries.
I would think that improvments to our medical system over the years probably makes PTS easier to spot. Soldiers have always had it rough with the amount of mental anquish they face. I would think that WWI soldiers would have had it the worst with trench warfare and cases of shell and chemical shock. However, Iraq is a much different situation as there are no front lines and the enemy is hard to distinquish. This is similar to Vietnam. One would think our soldiers would have a similar ratio to that of Vietnam. Perhaps the returning Vietnam soldiers were often under diagnosed. This wouldn't surprise me as returning soldiers have had problems with getting proper medical care after ever war.
Good point. Don't forget you also need a reliable means of vectoring the ordinance. This is also a similar problem with BIO weapons. It's easy to make them put being able to succesfully deploy them is thankfully very difficult. It seems to me that the truly dangerous weapons are the ones that can be succesuflly deployed and this thankfully seems out of reach.
"A French law (applying only in France, of course, but that may give ideas to other countries as well) forbids any employer to use the same mechanisms for access control and for work presence control. In other words, whenever you are badging for something, you should be warned about what you are doing, and that being said, nobody can use a work presence control system to track your coffee breaks or the way you organize your own work (I have been told a SNECMA human resources director got fired for having installed this kind of thing)."
Yeah, but us American's don't like Freedom... I mean France.
Excellent, Why stop there. We can then install "Tele-prompters" every where. I'm talking streets, buildings, bedrooms. It will be great!!! No one will know when they are being supervised. This will surely make them more concious and less violent. If you aren't in front of the tele-prompter you must be up to no good!!! Do me a favor and read 1984 or Clock Work Orange.
Exactly, You should be modded up. This is exactly the point of "A Clock Work Orange". They claim that they treat the person. However, in reality they only instill a great pain aversion in the patient when he thinks of doing something bad. The patient still wants to do the crimes and has poor morals.
"Would have put a quick stop to all the anti-social lord-of-the-flies-esq behaviour that characterizes the school years of most kids.
The real leason is at the end of "Lord of the Flies" . The kids are rescued by a Naval war ship. The naval officers are suprised that the children resorted to using spears. I believe one of the officers also makes a comment on how barbaric they were. This is ironic as the Naval warship has guns that can kill thousands. It's not just a problem with school aged children.
I agree. The cost of maintaining a stable oil supply should be factored in with the price of oil. There has to be some sort of bell curve at which cheap oil is not so cheap when defense spending, lives etc are factored in to the cost.
Unfortunately, Oil makes a lot of money and so does Military contracting, and Weapons Sales. Take Halliburton for instance. Their subsidaries are in Oil and Military contracting. Which means that Oil rich areas that are unstable are great Money makers. Great for the business's and economies that trade thouse commodities. Bad for the people that live there or get sent there.
Moving to energy independence would be a dramatic shift in our economy. I am sure there are many parties that do not welcome that shift as it would not profit their interests. They will try everything they can to slow the shift to renewable/independent energy.
Mod Parent up. Hemp's possibilities in manufacturing are starting to be re-discovered. I know that Europe, Canada and the UK are starting to embrace hemp into their economies. The US has remained a little in the dark. I think hemp is still illegal to grow in the US. In other countries Hemp is being used for food, paper, clothes , plastics, etc... The best thing is that it grows like a weed. Forgive the pun and don't get Hemp confused with it's sister plant. Hemp needs very little chemicals to allow it to grow and its rate of replenishment is yearly. Compared to trees which take 20 years to rotate. Amazing that the one of the largest cash crops in the US just under 100 years ago is forgotten and illegal today.
It does make sense to go green. It's good for the environment and also good since we wouldn't be as dependent on foreign resources. There is one big problem though. We've got an Empire to maintain here. Weapons are big business. So is oil as we are an oil base economy. No small wonder that the Bush cabinet is filled with Oil and Defense contractor ties. Take Haliburton , their subsidiraries are in the oil and militrary contracting business. Simply put green energy is not good for the business of those that are in power. There are a lot of people that make very "good" money from a finite resource that comes from unstable regions. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy gets 1.2 billion for 2006. How much is Iraq getting? The cost of Oil should also have the cost of defense spending and unstable deals with foriegn contries figured in. The tax payers are footing the bill for a misaligned energy policy. The Oil and Defense industries are laughing all the way to the bank. I am for a strong military. However, we are hemoraging a lot of money to get cheap oil right now.
A better thing to do is alway's leave the food dish out from the start when they are kittens. The cats learn to regulate their eating. They only gorge themselves when you take away their dishes. I know that this approach works with Cats as it works with my cats and the cats my wife had when she was younger. I grew up with Dogs and always heard that Dog's will gorge them selves. However, now that I have learned that cats only gorge themselves when the food is taken away I am wondering if this would also work for dogs.
" On a separate note, in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's $1.2B 2006 budget the Department of Energy is closing out the Hydropower Technologies Program.
How much have we spent on Iraq and the Middle east? Something like over 100Billion for the Iraq war alone. Perhaps if more money was spent on Renewable engergy R&D we wouldn't be so dependent on foreign resources. I wonder if anyone has done a feasibility study regarding the timescales and money needed to reduce our foreign energy consumption from unstable regions to less than 10%. Even if oil is still cheaper there has to be a point at which the cost of oil isn't worth the trouble of doing business in unstable regions.
OS X ( DARWIN ) is based off of NEXT OS. Steve Jobs was head of NEXT after he left Apple. When Steve came back to Apple he basically brought NEXT OS back with him. Apple would not have chosen Linux when they already had another solid *nix alternative.
Ever notice that the home directory icon on OS X resembles the NEXT home icon.
Take a look at sonos. It looks like the best system out there. The scroll wheel and color lcd remote are killer. I wonder if the licensed with apple to use the scroll wheel?
Place a second laser on Mars and you have a way to slow the craft down. A sail in the back for forward propolsion and a smaller sail at the front for breaking.
Ah yes playing with nomenclature. I missed that the first time. Kind of like the second Austin Powers movie and the space suit which has p^2 labeled near the crotch zipper.
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I used to work in the UK and am a little familiar with the Data Protection Act. We could not access the system from outside of the UK since the systems contained information regarding UK tax data. It's very different over here. I was surprised to find out that large US tax firms send their work over seas to get processed. I don't believe that we have a Data Protection Act which is as robust as the UK.
You are absolutely correct about law suits needing to be filed. My wife and I work for two large corporations. I am talking name brands that everyone knows. I was talking to her about a project that I was working on and how the users info is sorted in the Database by credit card number. There are a few things wrong with this. From a non-security stand point people have more than one credit card. So you would have plenty of duplicates. From a security standpoint there were loads of problems. Such as the data would be FTP'd from the mainframes to the unix midrange servers. So all of that data would be distributed about the enterprise. Makes absoutetley no sense. Especially since there was no reason for the application I was working on to know a credit card number. The only data needed was name and products bought. When talking with my wife about how bad it was she told me that it was the same way in her company. I can only think that these companies built there systems a long time ago and no one has taken on the ambitious project of updating their procedures. From a career standpoint I can't blame them. There is not a big demand to secure these systems better. It would be a huge effort with little reward. If things didn't work your career would be over.
If law suits start being filed there will be a sudden demand to get these systems more secure. It's always annoyed me that financial companies have charged us for their "credit protection" services. I have always felt that if my ID was stolen it would most likely be the fault of a financial institution and not me.
The 20GB model is also the only one that has not been changed. My bet is that they are going to phase the monochrom iPods out.
Superb financial advice. Glad you mentioned Indexing.
Looks like they are phasing out their monocrhome models. Judging by their choice to drop the 40GB B/W and their pricing scheme of a color model now being only $50 dollars more than the 20GB B/W
The prius batteries are estimated to last 12 years. They are warrantied by Toyota for 8 years. They accomplish this by putting in safe guards to make sure the battery does not completely discharge etc. If proper care is taken one can get a very long life out of current batteries. I am guess similar tatics can be taken with these batteries.
Or you can keep ICE vehicles and get super long distances out of them.
I would think that improvments to our medical system over the years probably makes PTS easier to spot. Soldiers have always had it rough with the amount of mental anquish they face. I would think that WWI soldiers would have had it the worst with trench warfare and cases of shell and chemical shock. However, Iraq is a much different situation as there are no front lines and the enemy is hard to distinquish. This is similar to Vietnam. One would think our soldiers would have a similar ratio to that of Vietnam. Perhaps the returning Vietnam soldiers were often under diagnosed. This wouldn't surprise me as returning soldiers have had problems with getting proper medical care after ever war.
Maybe we ought to have a game where you hunt for Osama Bin Laden and then let loose an army of 17 year olds into Tora Bora
We already did that. Some how they all ended up in Iraq!
Good point. Don't forget you also need a reliable means of vectoring the ordinance. This is also a similar problem with BIO weapons. It's easy to make them put being able to succesfully deploy them is thankfully very difficult. It seems to me that the truly dangerous weapons are the ones that can be succesuflly deployed and this thankfully seems out of reach.
"A French law (applying only in France, of course, but that may give ideas to other countries as well) forbids any employer to use the same mechanisms for access control and for work presence control. In other words, whenever you are badging for something, you should be warned about what you are doing, and that being said, nobody can use a work presence control system to track your coffee breaks or the way you organize your own work (I have been told a SNECMA human resources director got fired for having installed this kind of thing)."
Yeah, but us American's don't like Freedom... I mean France.
Excellent, Why stop there. We can then install "Tele-prompters" every where. I'm talking streets, buildings, bedrooms. It will be great!!! No one will know when they are being supervised. This will surely make them more concious and less violent. If you aren't in front of the tele-prompter you must be up to no good!!! Do me a favor and read 1984 or Clock Work Orange.
Exactly, You should be modded up. This is exactly the point of "A Clock Work Orange". They claim that they treat the person. However, in reality they only instill a great pain aversion in the patient when he thinks of doing something bad. The patient still wants to do the crimes and has poor morals.
"Would have put a quick stop to all the anti-social lord-of-the-flies-esq behaviour that characterizes the school years of most kids.
The real leason is at the end of "Lord of the Flies" . The kids are rescued by a Naval war ship. The naval officers are suprised that the children resorted to using spears. I believe one of the officers also makes a comment on how barbaric they were. This is ironic as the Naval warship has guns that can kill thousands. It's not just a problem with school aged children.
I agree. The cost of maintaining a stable oil supply should be factored in with the price of oil. There has to be some sort of bell curve at which cheap oil is not so cheap when defense spending, lives etc are factored in to the cost.
Unfortunately, Oil makes a lot of money and so does Military contracting, and Weapons Sales. Take Halliburton for instance. Their subsidaries are in Oil and Military contracting. Which means that Oil rich areas that are unstable are great Money makers. Great for the business's and economies that trade thouse commodities. Bad for the people that live there or get sent there.
Moving to energy independence would be a dramatic shift in our economy. I am sure there are many parties that do not welcome that shift as it would not profit their interests. They will try everything they can to slow the shift to renewable/independent energy.
Mod Parent up. Hemp's possibilities in manufacturing are starting to be re-discovered. I know that Europe, Canada and the UK are starting to embrace hemp into their economies. The US has remained a little in the dark. I think hemp is still illegal to grow in the US. In other countries Hemp is being used for food, paper, clothes , plastics, etc... The best thing is that it grows like a weed. Forgive the pun and don't get Hemp confused with it's sister plant. Hemp needs very little chemicals to allow it to grow and its rate of replenishment is yearly. Compared to trees which take 20 years to rotate. Amazing that the one of the largest cash crops in the US just under 100 years ago is forgotten and illegal today.
It does make sense to go green. It's good for the environment and also good since we wouldn't be as dependent on foreign resources. There is one big problem though. We've got an Empire to maintain here. Weapons are big business. So is oil as we are an oil base economy. No small wonder that the Bush cabinet is filled with Oil and Defense contractor ties. Take Haliburton , their subsidiraries are in the oil and militrary contracting business. Simply put green energy is not good for the business of those that are in power. There are a lot of people that make very "good" money from a finite resource that comes from unstable regions. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy gets 1.2 billion for 2006. How much is Iraq getting? The cost of Oil should also have the cost of defense spending and unstable deals with foriegn contries figured in. The tax payers are footing the bill for a misaligned energy policy. The Oil and Defense industries are laughing all the way to the bank. I am for a strong military. However, we are hemoraging a lot of money to get cheap oil right now.
A better thing to do is alway's leave the food dish out from the start when they are kittens. The cats learn to regulate their eating. They only gorge themselves when you take away their dishes. I know that this approach works with Cats as it works with my cats and the cats my wife had when she was younger. I grew up with Dogs and always heard that Dog's will gorge them selves. However, now that I have learned that cats only gorge themselves when the food is taken away I am wondering if this would also work for dogs.
" On a separate note, in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's $1.2B 2006 budget the Department of Energy is closing out the Hydropower Technologies Program.
How much have we spent on Iraq and the Middle east? Something like over 100Billion for the Iraq war alone. Perhaps if more money was spent on Renewable engergy R&D we wouldn't be so dependent on foreign resources. I wonder if anyone has done a feasibility study regarding the timescales and money needed to reduce our foreign energy consumption from unstable regions to less than 10%. Even if oil is still cheaper there has to be a point at which the cost of oil isn't worth the trouble of doing business in unstable regions.
I believe the micro-kernel is based off of NEXT. Last time I check FreeBSD does not use a micro-kernel.
OS X ( DARWIN ) is based off of NEXT OS. Steve Jobs was head of NEXT after he left Apple. When Steve came back to Apple he basically brought NEXT OS back with him. Apple would not have chosen Linux when they already had another solid *nix alternative.
Ever notice that the home directory icon on OS X resembles the NEXT home icon.
Take a look at sonos. It looks like the best system out there. The scroll wheel and color lcd remote are killer. I wonder if the licensed with apple to use the scroll wheel?
Place a second laser on Mars and you have a way to slow the craft down. A sail in the back for forward propolsion and a smaller sail at the front for breaking.
Ah yes playing with nomenclature. I missed that the first time. Kind of like the second Austin Powers movie and the space suit which has p^2 labeled near the crotch zipper.
BTW. The sail emits carbon monoxide to get its speed boost. You know, the stuff the kills humans almost as fast as dihydrogen monoxide.
I'll take that risk. I was never that good at breathing in outerspace anyways....