2. The two parties involved both decided to settle. Are you saying we should force them into court if neither wants to? Isn't it their choice to settle or continue the lawsuit?
Actually most people outside of politics that know what they are talking about know that privitizing SS will destroy the retirement income for people. SS is in no danger...the banks want the money so they can get rich, but ultimately we are the ones that would be screwed.
As another related question...why is it more expensive to be poor than rich?
If you want the rebate fill out the forms. It takes all of 30 seconds. To say that companies are taking advantage of people by offering them is silly. The customers are the ones to blame when they don't get thier rebate.
I have yet to see the 'increase price offer rebate' trick that you claim nor the 'expiry' scam. Expirations are clearly marked on the tag detailing the rebate. Learn to read. I've never had a problem collecting my rebates either. Perhaps people should learn to read and fill out the forms properly.
I for one am glad there are idiots like you to make offering rebates possible. I'll continue to take advantage of them, while through your laziness and stupidity will continue to pay full price. If you hate rebates so much don't bother with them..its simple. No one forces you to buy products with a rebate.
Or possibly the evelution of the language took two different paths because the speakers were sepereated by an ocean...kinda like american english and british english.
How about instead we dismantle much of the fed gov't, give the power back to the states...wouldn't that lower the fed tax burden? It would raise the state tax burder for sure...but you have more say over your state government then your federal one.
Which is why they have to sign it saying someone else prepared it. If the IRS audits me, the blame gets shifted to the preparer (since he's supposed to know better...otherwise why pay him?)
Ok, ridiculous. You don't think they could successfully cheat on their own search algorithm? Give me break; if they were cheating, they'd have done it right.
Why would they not trust you for breaking into a machine who's purpose was to be broken into?
It should only scare potental employers if the applicant broke into a machine he knows he shouldn't have. And thats not likely to be put on a resume either.
Nor is it necessary to; testing 'usual' data and boundry data should be sufficient.
2. We can't test all the combinations of inputs to the program.
Isn't this the same as 1?
3. We can't test all the paths through the program.
This is wrong. You shouldn't have too many code paths at all...if you do, then perhaps its time to re-evaluate the design to split more functionality into smaller pieces and properly test those.
4. We can't test for all of the other potential failures, such as those caused by user interface design errors or incomplete requirements analyses.
User interface design error? That sounds like it'd make it difficult for the end user to understand your UI. But your UI should be testable too..simulate button clicks etc.
Incompletes requirements gathering will always sink the ship. Therefore its important to make sure your requirements are complete as possible.
Automatted testing can solve alot of problems. When a new bug is discovered, SOP should be to write a unit test that verifies the bug exists, fix the bug, then rerun ALL existing tests. If they pass, its reasonable to assume things are fine again.
The reason certain bugs slip through is because many software development houses AND their clients don't believe building software is engineering.
It is, and all engineering is expensive. Until both sides agree on this (and more money is put into development) we'll continue to have rushed products and shoddy software. Add more time to properly engineer (which also means adding more cost) and we'll have quality software.
Actually, I think if when you are starting from scratch and begin then to build automated unit tests...and updating unit tests to expect new functionality before you implment..you can build solid software, and keep it testable.
Of course unit testing isn't everything...you need integration testing which is what would get hairy really quickly. But at the very least, you'd know the units are peforming as specified.
I think you need to get over yourself and stop trying to dictate how OTHERS live their lives. How the fuck does it affect you if he gets stoned or not?
It IS the gov'ts fault for many of the black market operations. Prohibition in the US is what gave rise to the mob. Really good job there...now we have a much stronger organized crime than we did before.
Implementing such a system inherently changes the technology introducing increased latency as the phone calls now need to go through a central system to allow for the wiretapping, as opposed to a direct point-to-point connection. This exponentially increases the hardware costs for VoIP providers and increases latency, which has always been a struggle to keep the system usable.
Um, correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't VoIP still usually end up on a regular line? So they can tap said line.
Even if all the packets don't take the same route to their destination, they all end up the same place. So tapping one of the endpoints should be trivial.
Do you even have any idea what you're talking about?
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1. Patent infringment is civil, not criminal.
2. The two parties involved both decided to settle. Are you saying we should force them into court if neither wants to? Isn't it their choice to settle or continue the lawsuit?
What we need is to remove the personhood status from corporations.
Actually you are wrong.
Typically you'll see 'these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to cure, prevent or treat any disease.'
Actually most people outside of politics that know what they are talking about know that privitizing SS will destroy the retirement income for people. SS is in no danger...the banks want the money so they can get rich, but ultimately we are the ones that would be screwed.
As another related question...why is it more expensive to be poor than rich?
I believe the company doing these ads was already sued and forced to stop. I haven't seen one in a while.
All rebate forms i've seen tell how to check the status of the rebate and to photocopy ALL materials sent...presumably so you can prove what you sent.
I've never had one denied...i don't see why other people have such a problem. Likely, they simply can't read.
Oh whaaa...i'm too lazy to take the 30 seconds to read and fill out the form. I'm being taken advantage of!!
If its not worth the preceved hassel then don't bother with it. don't whine then b/c you're 'so burdened' you can't bother with it.
If you want the rebate fill out the forms. It takes all of 30 seconds. To say that companies are taking advantage of people by offering them is silly. The customers are the ones to blame when they don't get thier rebate.
I have yet to see the 'increase price offer rebate' trick that you claim nor the 'expiry' scam. Expirations are clearly marked on the tag detailing the rebate. Learn to read. I've never had a problem collecting my rebates either. Perhaps people should learn to read and fill out the forms properly.
I for one am glad there are idiots like you to make offering rebates possible. I'll continue to take advantage of them, while through your laziness and stupidity will continue to pay full price. If you hate rebates so much don't bother with them..its simple. No one forces you to buy products with a rebate.
You can bet everything you own that AOL archive every message that's routed through their system.
I'm sorry, are that stupid? Do you know how much disk space that would take? In addition to indexing it to make it searchable by them?
Copyright is a totally manmade concept. We don't even have to have it. If we didn't, would that be immoral?
Probably never..since they do allow directim i believe. How can they even steal your ims if its not going thru thier servers?
Or possibly the evelution of the language took two different paths because the speakers were sepereated by an ocean...kinda like american english and british english.
Actually they probably have a scanner tha reads the forms...
How about instead we dismantle much of the fed gov't, give the power back to the states...wouldn't that lower the fed tax burden? It would raise the state tax burder for sure...but you have more say over your state government then your federal one.
Which is why they have to sign it saying someone else prepared it. If the IRS audits me, the blame gets shifted to the preparer (since he's supposed to know better...otherwise why pay him?)
You'd also lose your deductions as well.
Quite frankly I don't think I should be taxed on my income without considering other major taxes as well (property, state, local, etc etc).
Ok, ridiculous. You don't think they could successfully cheat on their own search algorithm? Give me break; if they were cheating, they'd have done it right.
Why would they not trust you for breaking into a machine who's purpose was to be broken into?
It should only scare potental employers if the applicant broke into a machine he knows he shouldn't have. And thats not likely to be put on a resume either.
1. We can't test all the inputs to the program.
Nor is it necessary to; testing 'usual' data and boundry data should be sufficient.
2. We can't test all the combinations of
inputs to the program.
Isn't this the same as 1?
3. We can't test all the paths through the
program.
This is wrong. You shouldn't have too many code paths at all...if you do, then perhaps its time to re-evaluate the design to split more functionality into smaller pieces and properly test those.
4. We can't test for all of the other potential failures, such as those caused by user interface design errors or incomplete requirements analyses.
User interface design error? That sounds like it'd make it difficult for the end user to understand your UI. But your UI should be testable too..simulate button clicks etc.
Incompletes requirements gathering will always sink the ship. Therefore its important to make sure your requirements are complete as possible.
Automatted testing can solve alot of problems. When a new bug is discovered, SOP should be to write a unit test that verifies the bug exists, fix the bug, then rerun ALL existing tests. If they pass, its reasonable to assume things are fine again.
The reason certain bugs slip through is because many software development houses AND their clients don't believe building software is engineering.
It is, and all engineering is expensive. Until both sides agree on this (and more money is put into development) we'll continue to have rushed products and shoddy software. Add more time to properly engineer (which also means adding more cost) and we'll have quality software.
Actually, I think if when you are starting from scratch and begin then to build automated unit tests...and updating unit tests to expect new functionality before you implment..you can build solid software, and keep it testable.
Of course unit testing isn't everything...you need integration testing which is what would get hairy really quickly. But at the very least, you'd know the units are peforming as specified.
I think you need to get over yourself and stop trying to dictate how OTHERS live their lives. How the fuck does it affect you if he gets stoned or not?
It IS the gov'ts fault for many of the black market operations. Prohibition in the US is what gave rise to the mob. Really good job there...now we have a much stronger organized crime than we did before.
Implementing such a system inherently changes the technology introducing increased latency as the phone calls now need to go through a central system to allow for the wiretapping, as opposed to a direct point-to-point connection. This exponentially increases the hardware costs for VoIP providers and increases latency, which has always been a struggle to keep the system usable.
Um, correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't VoIP still usually end up on a regular line? So they can tap said line.
Even if all the packets don't take the same route to their destination, they all end up the same place. So tapping one of the endpoints should be trivial.
Do you even have any idea what you're talking about?
I see that it only applies to american citizens on american soil. Sad really...as it starts off saying all men have rights..
Really? What doesn't it handle?
You can define any maps you want.
It doesn't matter how many lines of code.
Said fix for this exploit should NOT be a patch anymore. It should be part of thier baseline code branch.
Why would you start with a code branch thats missing alot of fixes? You shouldn't, and this patch should have become part of the main trunk years ago.