Q) How much money does the Red Cross receive from its licensed products? A) In fiscal year 2006, the Red Cross's revenue from the retail sale of licensed preparedness products was $2 million. So they're taking $2 million in revenue (which is enough to pay their CEO's salary four times over, yay) as part of breaking an agreement with a company that donated $5 million to them over three years (= $1.67 million/year). Brilliant.
Maybe you should write to Mark Everson, CEO of the American Red Cross, and ask him why he's taking funds away from the American Red Cross, namely a $500,000 salary, "more than triple his annual salary with the IRS".
Yes, the IRS, where totally co-incidentally the new ARC ombudsman came from. In fact, she's his old chief of staff! I'm sure she's totally independent and will be a great internal watchdog of Mr. Everson's actions.
But that's okay. He doesn't have any experience with non-profits or disaster relief, but since he was a Bush appointee I'm sure he'll do a heck of a job.
The American Red Cross runs 911? That's a surprise. Around here, it's run by local public safety agencies.
The American Red Cross runs hospitals? Funny, the ones I see around here are run by other organizations.
I'll admit, if the guy's house burns down, they may not be as quick to send him disaster relief supplies. Somehow I suspect that's not a big worry for a CEO.
Is that not the reason to use POST for important actions (e.g. modification to data) rather than GET? Indeed it is, but why should the vendors of security appliances be any better at reading RFCs than anyone else?
RFC 1945, section 12.2 (under the oh so stealthy heading of "Security Considerations"):
The writers of client software should be aware that the software represents the user in their interactions over the Internet, and should be careful to allow the user to be aware of any actions they may take which may have an unexpected significance to themselves or others.
In particular, the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods should never have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods should be considered "safe." This allows user agents to represent other methods, such as POST, in a special way, so that the user is made aware of the fact that a possibly unsafe action is being requested.
But hey, that RFC was only written in 1996; why would we expect something that was specifically stated as a security problem eleven years ago to be taken into account by security vendors?
One of the big issues in redistricting is minority representation (or non-representation), which leads to districts that consist of urban regions connected by a thin corridor or other similarly bogus shapes. Instead of artificially trying to group minorities (or party strongholds, or whatever) into specific geographical areas, though, why not remove that layer and replace it with a system that inherently represents various groups proportionally?
Using a single transferable vote system like that used for Cambridge (MA) municipal elections could work quite well. In the city council race, there are 9 seats, and any group capable of generating at least 10% of the total votes can elect a councillor of their own, even if that group is spread from one end of Cambridge to the other. Some councillors do have unofficial "districts" where their support is strongest, but this is not a requirement in any way.
STV elections also avoid the "wasted vote" problem with independent or smaller-party candidates, since voters can put one of those as their #1 choice, and if they don't win, those votes transfer down the ballot to the #2 or later choice as necessary.
With the current breakdown of seats by state, a system with a maximum of 11 seats in a district would allow all but 11 states to operate as one large multi-member district; raising the threshold to 13 would add Georgia, New Jersey, and North Carolina to the single-election list.
To use Massachusetts as an example: the current 10 seats in the House are all held by the Democratic Party. I doubt there's any viable redistricting that would allow the Republicans to win even one seat. Under a 10 member STV system, though, the 13% of the state that's registered Republican could elect at least one, and with support from unenrolled voters, possibly more.
Ah yes, the Bell 202 modulation, most popularly implemented in the Novation Apple-CAT II. Despite references to it being a "half-duplex" protocol, I'm pretty sure that there was a return channel of something like 75bps.
It's better than that; the US is already issuing RFID passports of its own, and started doing so just a few months before the new passport requirements go into effect. Hmm, a new tracking technology and a mandate for more people to get a passport, at the same time? Why should they worry about coins, when they're making it easier to track their own folks already?
UPS has bought purpose-built freight aircraft, though these are freight variants of passenger airliners like the 757-200 Freighter. Many of the MD-11s are probably passenger conversions, since airlines like Delta seemed to get rid of their MD-11s pretty quickly.
The people who think you can play only ITMS music on your iPod (sometimes misled by the Napster "$10,000" FUD ads) confuse me.
The iPod was announced in October 2001.
The iTunes Music Store opened in April 2003. The 3rd generation iPods were also announced at that time.
If it were really true that you couldn't but non-ITMS music on an iPod, the first and second generation iPods would have been, shall we say, much worse sellers than they were.
I don't believe this is true, unless there's a firmware update as part of Boot Camp
From TFM:
Step 1: Updating Your Computer's System Software and Firmware Boot Camp requires that you have Mac OS X v10.4.6 (or later) and the latest firmware installed on your computer. When you run Boot Camp Assistant, it lets you know if you need to update your firmware or system software.
"What's the difference between Lem's Solaris and Sun's Solaris?"
"One's an alien presence that drives all who encounter it mad, and the other one's been made into a movie by Andrei Tarkovsky." (or, in newer versions, "has been made into a movie with George Clooney's butt.")
My favorite asymmetric datacomm system was the Bell 202 "not quite half duplex" which was very similar to the V.23 standard (1200/75, and switchable as to who was who). The Novation AppleCat modem supported this, which made for very fast (by the standards of the day) file transfer applications.
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This is why Ben Bova wrote a story postulating a supersonic zeppelin that used the Busemann Biplane to avoid sonic booms (reviewed here).
Yes, it is actually a co-op. It's operated by Barnes & Noble, not "run" by them.
You might find a movie relevant to the joke.
A) In fiscal year 2006, the Red Cross's revenue from the retail sale of licensed preparedness products was $2 million. So they're taking $2 million in revenue (which is enough to pay their CEO's salary four times over, yay) as part of breaking an agreement with a company that donated $5 million to them over three years (= $1.67 million/year). Brilliant.
Maybe you should write to Mark Everson, CEO of the American Red Cross, and ask him why he's taking funds away from the American Red Cross, namely a $500,000 salary, "more than triple his annual salary with the IRS".
Yes, the IRS, where totally co-incidentally the new ARC ombudsman came from. In fact, she's his old chief of staff! I'm sure she's totally independent and will be a great internal watchdog of Mr. Everson's actions.
But that's okay. He doesn't have any experience with non-profits or disaster relief, but since he was a Bush appointee I'm sure he'll do a heck of a job.
The American Red Cross runs 911? That's a surprise. Around here, it's run by local public safety agencies.
The American Red Cross runs hospitals? Funny, the ones I see around here are run by other organizations.
I'll admit, if the guy's house burns down, they may not be as quick to send him disaster relief supplies. Somehow I suspect that's not a big worry for a CEO.
RFC 1945, section 12.2 (under the oh so stealthy heading of "Security Considerations"):But hey, that RFC was only written in 1996; why would we expect something that was specifically stated as a security problem eleven years ago to be taken into account by security vendors?
One of the big issues in redistricting is minority representation (or non-representation), which leads to districts that consist of urban regions connected by a thin corridor or other similarly bogus shapes. Instead of artificially trying to group minorities (or party strongholds, or whatever) into specific geographical areas, though, why not remove that layer and replace it with a system that inherently represents various groups proportionally?
Using a single transferable vote system like that used for Cambridge (MA) municipal elections could work quite well. In the city council race, there are 9 seats, and any group capable of generating at least 10% of the total votes can elect a councillor of their own, even if that group is spread from one end of Cambridge to the other. Some councillors do have unofficial "districts" where their support is strongest, but this is not a requirement in any way.
STV elections also avoid the "wasted vote" problem with independent or smaller-party candidates, since voters can put one of those as their #1 choice, and if they don't win, those votes transfer down the ballot to the #2 or later choice as necessary.
With the current breakdown of seats by state, a system with a maximum of 11 seats in a district would allow all but 11 states to operate as one large multi-member district; raising the threshold to 13 would add Georgia, New Jersey, and North Carolina to the single-election list.
To use Massachusetts as an example: the current 10 seats in the House are all held by the Democratic Party. I doubt there's any viable redistricting that would allow the Republicans to win even one seat. Under a 10 member STV system, though, the 13% of the state that's registered Republican could elect at least one, and with support from unenrolled voters, possibly more.
Ah yes, the Bell 202 modulation, most popularly implemented in the Novation Apple-CAT II. Despite references to it being a "half-duplex" protocol, I'm pretty sure that there was a return channel of something like 75bps.
My iPod (a Photo 60GB) has a sleep timer function. It's under Extras > Clock.
Nessus "found" that the Mac OS 9.2.2 box had a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to crash, or run code in, the Oracle 9i application server?
Since Oracle 9i doesn't even run on Mac OS 9.2.2, I don't think this is likely to be a big concern.
Shortly thereafter, patches were released for the server to detect and block the "Iphone" clients from connecting. Heh.
It's better than that; the US is already issuing RFID passports of its own, and started doing so just a few months before the new passport requirements go into effect. Hmm, a new tracking technology and a mandate for more people to get a passport, at the same time? Why should they worry about coins, when they're making it easier to track their own folks already?
UPS has bought purpose-built freight aircraft, though these are freight variants of passenger airliners like the 757-200 Freighter. Many of the MD-11s are probably passenger conversions, since airlines like Delta seemed to get rid of their MD-11s pretty quickly.
The people who think you can play only ITMS music on your iPod (sometimes misled by the Napster "$10,000" FUD ads) confuse me.
The iPod was announced in October 2001.
The iTunes Music Store opened in April 2003. The 3rd generation iPods were also announced at that time.
If it were really true that you couldn't but non-ITMS music on an iPod, the first and second generation iPods would have been, shall we say, much worse sellers than they were.
Okay, trumpet/bugle/cornet/etc players. Put your instrument where your mouth is and volunteer.
Bugles Across America needs volunteers.
From TFM:
The stock he "sold" was actually handled by Apple as withholding, just like you'd see on a normal paycheck. (Except for lots more money, heh.)
See the SEC Form 4.
"Shares withheld by Registrant to satisfy minimum statutory withholding requirements on vesting of restricted stock."
IOW, he couldn't get them and then sell DIS to pay for the taxes. (If he could, he'd also have to pay the capital gains tax on that, anyway.)
In short - he thinks APPL is a worse bet than Disney.
I do, too. Appell Pete Corp doesn't seem to be doing much these days. AAPL isn't doing badly, though.
He sold stock that had vested, so that he could pay the tax on the stock vesting (which is treated as income).
Apple withheld over 4.5 million of the shares, worth $295.7 million in total, to cover the minimum taxes required on the vesting of the restricted stock the company awarded to Jobs in 2003.
Sell about half, keep the rest...not a bad deal for Steve.
"What's the difference between Lem's Solaris and Sun's Solaris?"
"One's an alien presence that drives all who encounter it mad, and the other one's been made into a movie by Andrei Tarkovsky." (or, in newer versions, "has been made into a movie with George Clooney's butt.")
No, first you do cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade; make install clean
Then, all you need to do is run portinstall portname for each port you want to install.
Not to mention this is HP we're talking about, the ones who killed the Alpha so they could go with...Itanium.
Now it says "Site overloaded. Oh. Slashdot. That would explain things. Hello."
My favorite asymmetric datacomm system was the Bell 202 "not quite half duplex" which was very similar to the V.23 standard (1200/75, and switchable as to who was who). The Novation AppleCat modem supported this, which made for very fast (by the standards of the day) file transfer applications.
Verizon, Sprint, and former Nextel phones aren't GSM, so you can't put a SIM in them.
Cingular and T-Mobile phones are usually SIM-locked, so you need to get them unlocked before you can put in a PAYG SIM.