that call to the home office only requests a charge into the account balance. If the system then sends the balance adjustment over the air, there is no way for a hacker to spoof that transmitted packet into the encrypted over the air stream.
Also, there are algorithms used to ensure validity of the sender. If the system rotates the validity checking keys via the broadcast signal, your spoofing box will not have the matching home office keys.
There are many ways to secure a system like this because of the very low probablility that one could hack the broadcast stream.
"I do not agree that Subversion is difficult to set up."
Same here. I had subversion, appache with subversion modules, tortoise, and the command line clients installed in about 3 hours.
The repository has taken many many hours to organize and reorganize, but that is becuase we started from scratch with no respoitory and a huge pile of code I had "release" backups to CD.
So if anything, I'd have to whine about my own lack of sophistication in organizing a complex code tree. The subversion and subversion related tools kick ass and were easy to install. The appache module that allows casual browsing of the code base is simply brilliant.
yes, and iirc they flashed his private email address on the screen during the segment.
comedy central has a lot of those segments available on their web page
Not only do I like the ability to skip the raunchy stuff, but I like the fact that this promotes the idea that people can have control over the content that they pay to license.
Holy crap, someone actually gets it. Amongst all the raging against The Man (tm) for trying to take away the right to steal content, I've actually uncovered a voice of reason.
This whole day is going to seem special now.
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Yes, but what's easier? Monitoring and specific targeted actions or carpet bombing the site out of existence?
It is too bad. I'm thinking that as they eliminate the freely available copies, the business will be better for the bootleggers. And thats not good for anyone.
Yes and no. The majority of material spread by EZT was from bands that allow taping and there was no issue with that.
The things that led to the downfall of EZT was the availability of recordings of artists that do not allow taping and the fact that these recordings keep showing up on ebay.
Are old live recordings of Sinatra a threat to the industry? Hell yes. Have you heard the crap they pass off as music these days?
I agree that it is the fault of the consumer that outsourcing has gone as far as it has. I agree that we are getting screwed by our trade agreements with China.
But you are generally incorrect regarding trade. International trade builds alliances based on common dependence. When the trade is favorable to both nations, both nations benefit and are more likely to become political allies. Your statement that other countries are our economic enemies out to destroy us is not true either. They do want to take our place at the top of the economic food chain, but to destroy us is to lose a big customer and they do not want that. I love the way we in the U.S. clamor about how "those people" are taking our jobs and economic position when the U.S. has a long history of raping third world countries of their resources for selfish economic gain.
There is no way that the current fleet of vehicles will be discarded in favor of electric cars. Conversion of the conventional fleet to hydrogen power will allow a transition to alternate fuels.
"Very little oil is used for electricity generation in the U.S. "
The point was that excess power could be directed toward hydrogen generation for fuel cells to be used in vehicles. That would reduce the oil consumed in vehicles.
Let's put your theory to a test - I'll meet you in the square, you bring a hockey stick and I'll bring a gun. Then afterwards we can let passersby vote on who's more 'dangerous'.
I don't get your point. If I was running around with my hockey stick swinging it at people, how is that not dangerous. In fact, if you had the gun and were trained to use it with precision and accuracy, it would be incumbent upon you to intervene for the welfare of my victims. They might consider you quite the hero.
I didn't understand why the visiting Canadian would be freaked out by ammunition that was displayed openly in stores in the U.S. I'm actually a bit surprised given that Canada is largely rural and most farmers keep guns for hunting and to protect their livestock from predatory animals.
"Living in Canada, you may be making 40% less, but you cost of living is essentially 40% less as well, and that's including all the taxes and pension plans we pay."
I think that you missed the OPs point. The salary vs. cost of living equality only works if you spend all your money. If you are saving a significant part of your salary, then the net amount of dollars saved is less if you are paid less but saving the equivalent percentage. Again, that might not matter if the saved dollars are spent in the same market where they were saved, but if you choose to retire to a less expensive market, you are much better off having accumulated 40% more while living/earning in the more expensive market.
BTW, bullets are not dangerous. It's the moron holding a gun that can be dangerous. And not everyone holding a gun is a moron. Maybe we should require backgound checks and a license to own or carry a hockey stick. It seems like the most damage done in the NHL by violent acts with hockey sticks occur when the vancouver team is on the ice.
What bothers me most about this case is that although windows is a generic GUI term (and I expect that the court will decide that way), the selection of the name "Lindows" was a direct and purposeful ripoff of the name "Windows". Lets face it, they chose a name that was as close as possible to a blatant trademark infringment. If the MS product was not commonly refered to as "Windows", then "Lindows" would mean nothing. They picked a name that would be identifiable simply because of the trademark of their competitor.
I hate MS but in this situation I think they are justified.
I was not defending unions as much as I was trying to illuminate a less than obvious advantage of unions.
I am against unions for IT and engineering workers specificly because I have always been at the top of the scale and a union could only hurt me. But it would be better in some ways for the company. Instead of having to negotiate with me and give me the higher salary I usually command, a union IT contract would allow the company to just hire people like me at scale. If I were paid scale, there would be no worry that my salary was leaked to my "peers". As it is today, most companies with individually negotiated compensation packages have fairly strong policies regarding employees revealing their compensation simply because they don't want lesser paid indiviuals to feel screwed.
Another benefit of a union contract is that a company has known labor costs for a period of time into the future, thus insulating the company from the effects of temporary fluctuations in the labor market. It makes it alot easier to plan for business development and expansion when labor costs can be reliably predicted.
I don't know what level experience you have in hiring. I can tell you that the assertion that salary and skill are proportional is not accurate for all cases. I have seen the relationship inverted on many occasions simply because one candidate was a better negotiator than another candidate. In several cases, weaker candidates were hired at higher salary than existing employees just to meet a short term need. Then the hiring manager has to spend the next two years trying to adjust the salary discrepency before someone gets pissed and quits. This is a case where labor market conditions prevail over actual skill in the determinaltion of an individual's compensation. A union environment prevents this situation by establishing uniform compensation practices. A union can help protect those who are highly skilled but too meek to demand what they deserve. Like me, you don't seem to have that problem. But alot of people in this line of work are not the best in confrontational situations like a salary negotiation. For them a union will provide benefits.
Again, don't interpret that I am pro-union. I just think that it is important to study the issue from several points of view.
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that call to the home office only requests a charge into the account balance. If the system then sends the balance adjustment over the air, there is no way for a hacker to spoof that transmitted packet into the encrypted over the air stream.
Also, there are algorithms used to ensure validity of the sender. If the system rotates the validity checking keys via the broadcast signal, your spoofing box will not have the matching home office keys.
There are many ways to secure a system like this because of the very low probablility that one could hack the broadcast stream.
"I do not agree that Subversion is difficult to set up."
Same here. I had subversion, appache with subversion modules, tortoise, and the command line clients installed in about 3 hours.
The repository has taken many many hours to organize and reorganize, but that is becuase we started from scratch with no respoitory and a huge pile of code I had "release" backups to CD.
So if anything, I'd have to whine about my own lack of sophistication in organizing a complex code tree. The subversion and subversion related tools kick ass and were easy to install. The appache module that allows casual browsing of the code base is simply brilliant.
Are you suggesting that people who buy Windows XP need penis enlargement medications? I'm not arguing the point, just looking for clarification.
yes, and iirc they flashed his private email address on the screen during the segment. comedy central has a lot of those segments available on their web page
Shallow stairs, pfffft. I'd like to see how many drunk freshmen could navigate those. Not many I'm sure.
"And all this time, I've been smoking harmless tobacco!"
priceless
If your theory is correct, then how did Margaret Cho make any list all?
Not only do I like the ability to skip the raunchy stuff, but I like the fact that this promotes the idea that people can have control over the content that they pay to license.
Holy crap, someone actually gets it. Amongst all the raging against The Man (tm) for trying to take away the right to steal content, I've actually uncovered a voice of reason.
This whole day is going to seem special now.
yeah, good point
Yes, but what's easier? Monitoring and specific targeted actions or carpet bombing the site out of existence?
It is too bad. I'm thinking that as they eliminate the freely available copies, the business will be better for the bootleggers. And thats not good for anyone.
Yes and no. The majority of material spread by EZT was from bands that allow taping and there was no issue with that.
The things that led to the downfall of EZT was the availability of recordings of artists that do not allow taping and the fact that these recordings keep showing up on ebay.
Are old live recordings of Sinatra a threat to the industry? Hell yes. Have you heard the crap they pass off as music these days?
I agree that it is the fault of the consumer that outsourcing has gone as far as it has. I agree that we are getting screwed by our trade agreements with China.
But you are generally incorrect regarding trade. International trade builds alliances based on common dependence. When the trade is favorable to both nations, both nations benefit and are more likely to become political allies. Your statement that other countries are our economic enemies out to destroy us is not true either. They do want to take our place at the top of the economic food chain, but to destroy us is to lose a big customer and they do not want that. I love the way we in the U.S. clamor about how "those people" are taking our jobs and economic position when the U.S. has a long history of raping third world countries of their resources for selfish economic gain.
There is no way that the current fleet of vehicles will be discarded in favor of electric cars. Conversion of the conventional fleet to hydrogen power will allow a transition to alternate fuels.
"Very little oil is used for electricity generation in the U.S. "
The point was that excess power could be directed toward hydrogen generation for fuel cells to be used in vehicles. That would reduce the oil consumed in vehicles.
It's a very good point too.
Let's put your theory to a test - I'll meet you in the square, you bring a hockey stick and I'll bring a gun. Then afterwards we can let passersby vote on who's more 'dangerous'.
I don't get your point. If I was running around with my hockey stick swinging it at people, how is that not dangerous. In fact, if you had the gun and were trained to use it with precision and accuracy, it would be incumbent upon you to intervene for the welfare of my victims. They might consider you quite the hero.
I didn't understand why the visiting Canadian would be freaked out by ammunition that was displayed openly in stores in the U.S. I'm actually a bit surprised given that Canada is largely rural and most farmers keep guns for hunting and to protect their livestock from predatory animals.
Who are you quoting here? That quote isn't from my post.
"And the girls are fugly!!" too late, I already know better ;-)
"Living in Canada, you may be making 40% less, but you cost of living is essentially 40% less as well, and that's including all the taxes and pension plans we pay."
I think that you missed the OPs point. The salary vs. cost of living equality only works if you spend all your money. If you are saving a significant part of your salary, then the net amount of dollars saved is less if you are paid less but saving the equivalent percentage. Again, that might not matter if the saved dollars are spent in the same market where they were saved, but if you choose to retire to a less expensive market, you are much better off having accumulated 40% more while living/earning in the more expensive market.
BTW, bullets are not dangerous. It's the moron holding a gun that can be dangerous. And not everyone holding a gun is a moron. Maybe we should require backgound checks and a license to own or carry a hockey stick. It seems like the most damage done in the NHL by violent acts with hockey sticks occur when the vancouver team is on the ice.
So basicly, if a candidate has experience managing animals that is the best candidate for your team? ;-)
Damnit, I refreshed the page and my last mod point expired. Otherwise you would have got it.
If it's a DNA sample they want, I'll offer up something other than blood.
What bothers me most about this case is that although windows is a generic GUI term (and I expect that the court will decide that way), the selection of the name "Lindows" was a direct and purposeful ripoff of the name "Windows". Lets face it, they chose a name that was as close as possible to a blatant trademark infringment. If the MS product was not commonly refered to as "Windows", then "Lindows" would mean nothing. They picked a name that would be identifiable simply because of the trademark of their competitor. I hate MS but in this situation I think they are justified.
Also, nobody but me gets to touch my keyboard to begin with.
That's what you think. I saw Elaine Bennis coming out of your office the other night. I wouldn't touch your stapler if I was you.
Six centuries is an awfully short time, and maybe encouraging space programs and building stations outside of Earth is probably a good idea.
Maybe this explains why Bush is pushing for a moon base.
I was not defending unions as much as I was trying to illuminate a less than obvious advantage of unions.
I am against unions for IT and engineering workers specificly because I have always been at the top of the scale and a union could only hurt me. But it would be better in some ways for the company. Instead of having to negotiate with me and give me the higher salary I usually command, a union IT contract would allow the company to just hire people like me at scale. If I were paid scale, there would be no worry that my salary was leaked to my "peers". As it is today, most companies with individually negotiated compensation packages have fairly strong policies regarding employees revealing their compensation simply because they don't want lesser paid indiviuals to feel screwed.
Another benefit of a union contract is that a company has known labor costs for a period of time into the future, thus insulating the company from the effects of temporary fluctuations in the labor market. It makes it alot easier to plan for business development and expansion when labor costs can be reliably predicted.
I don't know what level experience you have in hiring. I can tell you that the assertion that salary and skill are proportional is not accurate for all cases. I have seen the relationship inverted on many occasions simply because one candidate was a better negotiator than another candidate. In several cases, weaker candidates were hired at higher salary than existing employees just to meet a short term need. Then the hiring manager has to spend the next two years trying to adjust the salary discrepency before someone gets pissed and quits. This is a case where labor market conditions prevail over actual skill in the determinaltion of an individual's compensation. A union environment prevents this situation by establishing uniform compensation practices. A union can help protect those who are highly skilled but too meek to demand what they deserve. Like me, you don't seem to have that problem. But alot of people in this line of work are not the best in confrontational situations like a salary negotiation. For them a union will provide benefits.
Again, don't interpret that I am pro-union. I just think that it is important to study the issue from several points of view.