I want my bank and other financial institutions to give me two different username/password combinations. One for [partial] read only access, and another for actual transactions. This would allow me to use services such as mint.com or quicken to aggregate my account information, but not actually give them the power to make any changes to my account.
I hope if I get to that point (heart problems run in my family) I've another citizenship besides USA in a country that doesn't try to shoehorn capitalism into medicine.
What does a capitalist vs socialist economy have to do with how to test and qualify doctors?
I've stopped going to my doctor altogether because the board of directors at the affiliated hospital let us know that it might not be safe to be a patient of one of their doctors any more over a billing dispute.
If this is true, then you should publicize this behavior. Treating a patient differently, especially if, as you said, in a dangerous manner, based on who they work violates the rules of ethical behavior and codes on conduct.
Just follow the steps from the xda-developers forum. There's very little risk if you just follow the instructions. If things go very wrong and you really brick your phone [which I've never heard of actually happening, every wrong thing always turned out to be recoverable], you can always get a replacement. Do have insurance for your phone from Sprint? It's a few bucks a month, but offers a really good service, covers basically everything, including physical damage from say, getting drunk and dropping the phone at a bar.
Above statement doesn't mean that I agree with Sprint's policies, but it does offer a workaround.
HTC makes it really easy to root, almost encouraged even.
Root it and remove the apps, or run an alternate firmware. Keep a copy of the original if you ever need it serviced.
I like Fresh EVO, but I'm having trouble with the 4G radio. I don't have good 4G coverage in my area so I don't mind and haven't taken the time to really trouble shoot it.
Where is your server hosted? You mention dyndns, so I'm assuming you mean out of your house. I don't know about your house, but mine doesn't have backup power nor server and network redundancy. Plus, I like the off-site nature of the Cloud / Dropbox backup solution.
I don't feel like running a high-availability cluster out of my house.
Every document can have secure access controls. - SSL, Done
SSL doesn't solve access control. Access control requires authorization and authentication mechanisms. Not to mention user management. Along with that:
Every user is uniquely and securely identified. - SSL, Done
No, not done. Individual sites have users, and there is movements in place to allow those sites to share users [OpenID for example], but there is not yet a global identity management system..
Wow, seems like everyone has missed the point of this article.
Microsoft is releasing an SDK for Kinect development on non XBox hardware [i.e., normal computers].
This article say which Kinect features would be accessible via this SDK [camera? depth tracking? voice tracking? body tracking? etc.].
This has nothing to do with the XBox tracking you.
Brilliant idea. However, we should start training kids when they're really young [well, the one's that pass the original tests anyways] and put them in a battle school. Maybe tell parents to have more kids if the first ones were promising but had a few flaws.
No, Microsoft doesn't have grounds to sue unless the product being sold is in competition with something Microsoft sells. There are 4 points that need to be addressed. From the bill, note claims 1 and 4:
Elements of a Claim. A person is injured by the sale of a product if the person establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that:
1. the person manufactures articles or products sold or offered for sale in Washington in competition with articles or products made using stolen IT;
2. the person's articles or products were not manufactured using stolen IT;
3. the person suffered economic harm, which may be shown by evidence that the retail price of the stolen IT was $20,000 or more; and
4. the person is proceeding in rem or seeks injunctive relief, that they have suffered a material competitive injury.
This indicates that only someone in competition with the product has grounds to sue. Imagine if another country allowed for insanely cheap and/or free labor [from political prisoners, for example, I know it's a stretch....], a US producer (A) who purchases from companies using that free labor has an advantage over another producer (B) that pays a higher cost for their parts. Company B can sue company A, but a third party C, who doesn't have a product in that market, has no grounds to sue.
I'm not certain I agree with this law, but it's pretty clear that Microsoft wouldn't make money from lawsuits here. They would make money by the increase in sales.
The recycling bin is wrong for several reasons:
- It is an icon, and all icons except this one represent applications. It breaks the metaphor.
Huh? My drives / folders / directories / files are also represented as icons.
- It is hard to find as it has no fixed location. And it eats icon space without good reason.
- Because it has no fixed position, the notion of drag&drop to it is fundamentally broken. Delete has to be a fixed gesture or command, not a variable one, as it is a unique operation. In addition, having it as an icon is accident-prone.
I don't know what system you're using in which the location of the Trash / Recycle Bin changes, mine stays in exactly the same spot [in the dock on OS X, on my desktop in windows, and I don't have one shown in Ubuntu].
But, if you want to talk about broken metaphors, Apple's old "drag the disk to the Trash to eject" action was the best.
In my view, the recycling bin is one of the results of Microsofts attempt to allow users to stay incompetent, instead of requiring them to lift their competence level a bit and become proficient. If you consider how much time people spend to learn how to read and write, refusing to learn a bit more in order to be a competent computer user is just plain stupid.
I believe Apple had the Trash concept before Microsoft's Recycle Bin.
Isn't this basically the same as Facebook wanting to force all app developers to use Facebook credits for their cash->in-game currency transactions [with Facebook getting a 30% cut]?
! I AM NOT A DAIRY COW, THEREFORE I DO NOT EXIST SIMPLY FOR SOME ASSHOLE TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF ME!
Thank god that up until now Facebook has been operating out of the goodness of their heart. Thanks to all the hundreds [thousands?] of volunteers who operate their data centers and develop their code. Thanks to all the people who have so generously donated their servers and bandwidth to the Facebook operation [I'm sure they got a tax deduction, so it's not purely altruistic] so that you've been able to play your games for free until now.
Get off it. Facebook is a business, just like any other business. They exist to make money; they exist to pay their employees and shareholders. They offer services, which you may or may not decide to pay the price of [this is true for both the users, i.e., people and for the companies that do business with Facebook, i.e., the advertisers and game/app developers]. Do you get angry at Amazon for making you pay for books? Do you think it's unfair that EBay takes a percentage of the sellers price as commission? Do you have a job? Who pays your salary? I can guarantee the money for your salary comes from the sale of goods and/or services. Do you wish your customers felt the same way as you do, that everything should be free? I'm sure you'd have a lot of customers for a while with a "give the product away for free attitude", but I don't think your business would last very long.
Remember, if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're most likely the product.
I have actually done this on a Macbook Pro. I accidentally stripped a screw [phillips head] and ended up using a Dremel to make it a flat head screw. Was tough due to the tiny size of the screw and my mechanical ineptitude, but it worked. It was one of my prouder moments.
The whole "parents should take responsibility instead of using software" thing is a crock to begin with. To use a car analogy, it's like saying you shouldn't put seatbelts in your kids car, they should learn how to drive better. Multiple levels of protection, up to a point and cost permitting, are always better.
Then teach him the more advanced stuff at home and give him a book to read in school. Or find a school that's better suited towards his levels and abilities. Explain this to his teachers, let him demonstrate his abilities to them, and the (good) teachers will know how to handle this type of situation. Your wife is a teacher, so I'm sure your actively involved with your son's teachers. When I was a kid, I was often in a similar situation (further ahead than other students); when we had a topic that I already knew, or when I picked it up, I just sat back and quietly did something else. The teachers understood, and as long as I could demonstrate my understanding of the subject and wasn't disruptive (which I would be at times), they went along with it.
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I want my bank and other financial institutions to give me two different username/password combinations. One for [partial] read only access, and another for actual transactions. This would allow me to use services such as mint.com or quicken to aggregate my account information, but not actually give them the power to make any changes to my account.
What do you think of the new MS FAST search additions?
I hope if I get to that point (heart problems run in my family) I've another citizenship besides USA in a country that doesn't try to shoehorn capitalism into medicine.
What does a capitalist vs socialist economy have to do with how to test and qualify doctors?
I've stopped going to my doctor altogether because the board of directors at the affiliated hospital let us know that it might not be safe to be a patient of one of their doctors any more over a billing dispute.
If this is true, then you should publicize this behavior. Treating a patient differently, especially if, as you said, in a dangerous manner, based on who they work violates the rules of ethical behavior and codes on conduct.
Just follow the steps from the xda-developers forum. There's very little risk if you just follow the instructions. If things go very wrong and you really brick your phone [which I've never heard of actually happening, every wrong thing always turned out to be recoverable], you can always get a replacement. Do have insurance for your phone from Sprint? It's a few bucks a month, but offers a really good service, covers basically everything, including physical damage from say, getting drunk and dropping the phone at a bar.
Above statement doesn't mean that I agree with Sprint's policies, but it does offer a workaround. HTC makes it really easy to root, almost encouraged even.
Root it and remove the apps, or run an alternate firmware. Keep a copy of the original if you ever need it serviced. I like Fresh EVO, but I'm having trouble with the 4G radio. I don't have good 4G coverage in my area so I don't mind and haven't taken the time to really trouble shoot it.
I'm outside a starbucks a very close to the data center; power is fine, weather is fine [maybe a little too sunny to be working on a laptop outside]
Where is your server hosted? You mention dyndns, so I'm assuming you mean out of your house. I don't know about your house, but mine doesn't have backup power nor server and network redundancy. Plus, I like the off-site nature of the Cloud / Dropbox backup solution. I don't feel like running a high-availability cluster out of my house.
Every document can have secure access controls. - SSL, Done
SSL doesn't solve access control. Access control requires authorization and authentication mechanisms. Not to mention user management. Along with that:
Every user is uniquely and securely identified. - SSL, Done
No, not done. Individual sites have users, and there is movements in place to allow those sites to share users [OpenID for example], but there is not yet a global identity management system..
Wow, seems like everyone has missed the point of this article. Microsoft is releasing an SDK for Kinect development on non XBox hardware [i.e., normal computers]. This article say which Kinect features would be accessible via this SDK [camera? depth tracking? voice tracking? body tracking? etc.]. This has nothing to do with the XBox tracking you.
Brilliant idea. However, we should start training kids when they're really young [well, the one's that pass the original tests anyways] and put them in a battle school. Maybe tell parents to have more kids if the first ones were promising but had a few flaws.
Elements of a Claim. A person is injured by the sale of a product if the person establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that: 1. the person manufactures articles or products sold or offered for sale in Washington in competition with articles or products made using stolen IT; 2. the person's articles or products were not manufactured using stolen IT; 3. the person suffered economic harm, which may be shown by evidence that the retail price of the stolen IT was $20,000 or more; and 4. the person is proceeding in rem or seeks injunctive relief, that they have suffered a material competitive injury.
This indicates that only someone in competition with the product has grounds to sue. Imagine if another country allowed for insanely cheap and/or free labor [from political prisoners, for example, I know it's a stretch....], a US producer (A) who purchases from companies using that free labor has an advantage over another producer (B) that pays a higher cost for their parts. Company B can sue company A, but a third party C, who doesn't have a product in that market, has no grounds to sue. I'm not certain I agree with this law, but it's pretty clear that Microsoft wouldn't make money from lawsuits here. They would make money by the increase in sales.
However, it's not the least bit confusing to the larger number of Windows users who've been double-clicking the title bar to maximize.
The recycling bin is wrong for several reasons: - It is an icon, and all icons except this one represent applications. It breaks the metaphor.
Huh? My drives / folders / directories / files are also represented as icons.
- It is hard to find as it has no fixed location. And it eats icon space without good reason. - Because it has no fixed position, the notion of drag&drop to it is fundamentally broken. Delete has to be a fixed gesture or command, not a variable one, as it is a unique operation. In addition, having it as an icon is accident-prone.
I don't know what system you're using in which the location of the Trash / Recycle Bin changes, mine stays in exactly the same spot [in the dock on OS X, on my desktop in windows, and I don't have one shown in Ubuntu]. But, if you want to talk about broken metaphors, Apple's old "drag the disk to the Trash to eject" action was the best.
In my view, the recycling bin is one of the results of Microsofts attempt to allow users to stay incompetent, instead of requiring them to lift their competence level a bit and become proficient. If you consider how much time people spend to learn how to read and write, refusing to learn a bit more in order to be a competent computer user is just plain stupid.
I believe Apple had the Trash concept before Microsoft's Recycle Bin.
Isn't this basically the same as Facebook wanting to force all app developers to use Facebook credits for their cash->in-game currency transactions [with Facebook getting a 30% cut]?
If you think you can compare an algorithm and a language I suggest you don't go into programming or computer science.
And then they have to use the lost password function that every website in existence has. The horror!
! I AM NOT A DAIRY COW, THEREFORE I DO NOT EXIST SIMPLY FOR SOME ASSHOLE TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF ME!
Thank god that up until now Facebook has been operating out of the goodness of their heart. Thanks to all the hundreds [thousands?] of volunteers who operate their data centers and develop their code. Thanks to all the people who have so generously donated their servers and bandwidth to the Facebook operation [I'm sure they got a tax deduction, so it's not purely altruistic] so that you've been able to play your games for free until now. Get off it. Facebook is a business, just like any other business. They exist to make money; they exist to pay their employees and shareholders. They offer services, which you may or may not decide to pay the price of [this is true for both the users, i.e., people and for the companies that do business with Facebook, i.e., the advertisers and game/app developers]. Do you get angry at Amazon for making you pay for books? Do you think it's unfair that EBay takes a percentage of the sellers price as commission? Do you have a job? Who pays your salary? I can guarantee the money for your salary comes from the sale of goods and/or services. Do you wish your customers felt the same way as you do, that everything should be free? I'm sure you'd have a lot of customers for a while with a "give the product away for free attitude", but I don't think your business would last very long. Remember, if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're most likely the product.
I have actually done this on a Macbook Pro. I accidentally stripped a screw [phillips head] and ended up using a Dremel to make it a flat head screw. Was tough due to the tiny size of the screw and my mechanical ineptitude, but it worked. It was one of my prouder moments.
Gee, the screwdriver is also being sold on a site linked to in the article. http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/MacBook-Air-5-Point-Pentalobe-Screwdriver/IF145-090/
The whole "parents should take responsibility instead of using software" thing is a crock to begin with. To use a car analogy, it's like saying you shouldn't put seatbelts in your kids car, they should learn how to drive better. Multiple levels of protection, up to a point and cost permitting, are always better.
It's not just a modem. The interesting thing is the part about providing power to the devices.
It wasn't his personnel firearm, it was his federally issued firearm. It was the TSA's.
Actually, according to recent studies, the placebo effect is *increasing* http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all
Then teach him the more advanced stuff at home and give him a book to read in school. Or find a school that's better suited towards his levels and abilities. Explain this to his teachers, let him demonstrate his abilities to them, and the (good) teachers will know how to handle this type of situation. Your wife is a teacher, so I'm sure your actively involved with your son's teachers. When I was a kid, I was often in a similar situation (further ahead than other students); when we had a topic that I already knew, or when I picked it up, I just sat back and quietly did something else. The teachers understood, and as long as I could demonstrate my understanding of the subject and wasn't disruptive (which I would be at times), they went along with it.