but does that mean they're going to drop their highly profitable closed-source programming jobs and start giving away code?
Who sayd that jobs involving Linux and open source pay less than closed-source jobs? Two month ago, I left a very Micro$oft centric outfit and switched over to a company with a more open attitude towards Linux. I gained 20% in pay. However, to tie in with the environmental thread, my new situation is harder on the environment: as it is located out of town, I go there by car, whereas I used to take public transportation to get to my previous place of work. Oh, btw: hi Benjamin, are the radiators still there, or does MS give you a chill in the back?
To: webmaster@mcdonalds.com Subject: Possible McDonalds trademark infringement by http://www.peta-online.org/
While surfing on the Web, I came accross http://www.peta-online.org which prominently shows a small banner bearing the face of Ronald McDonald, and the writing "Unhappy Meals", which looks uncomfortably close to your "Happy Meals" trademark. You might want to draw your legal team's attention to this dilution of your trademark.
...it's called the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE). Not only can plainly buy or short stocks (very boring), but there are also options. Options give you the right to buy (or sell) shares (the underlying) at a future date for a given price (the strike price). Your gain is the difference between market price and strike price. If the thing doesn't turn out in your favor, you just don't exercise the option, and you only lost the price of the option itself.
Example:
January 2000 puts on Microsoft (MSQMJ) are currently priced at $3/4. You buy a package of 100 contract (which you pay $75). Suppose Microsoft gets slammed by the Supreme's (and that they are quick enough to be done until the third Friday in January...), and crash to $40. Your strike price will be $10 lower than the market price, so you pocket the difference: $1000. You just made $925 (the $1000 you made minus the $75 you paid for the options).
If on the other hand it doesn't work out, and they'll hover around $55, it is not interesting to exercise (you'd lose $500 doing so). So you let your option simply expires worthlessly, and you just lost $75 rather than $575.
N.B. In reality, options are actually rarely exercised. What really happens is that as soon as the market price falls below the strike price (for puts), they appreciate tremendously: in our example of Microsoft tanking to $40, the MSQMJ options would be worth $10/option, at which time you'd simply sell them.
The big advantage of put options over short sells is that you can get no margin calls: i.e. you don't get into trouble if Microsoft climbs to $95 before crashing back to $40. Their disadvantage however, is that they do expire: so if for instance the court is slower than you expected, you lose.
When pushing the bar, you basically compress the near end of it. This compression moves along the bar like a longitudinal wave until the remote end moves. For small bars or very rigit bars, this looks almost instantenous, but for your example, it would actually take more than 2 years until the remote end moves.
If you were able to do an infinitely rigid bar you might get instantenous communication (infinite speed of sound), but the trouble is, there is no such thing as an infinitely rigid bar...
But their primary purpose still is to kill (or to credibly threaten to kill). Similarly, the Internet's primary use today is as a tool to disseminate information, and to "route around censorship". By this, it is a natural ennemy for all dictatorships, the MPAA and other unfriendly organizations: the Internet is not politically neutral. It's thus more than a mere tool. The Chinese now have implemented a way to muzzle this liberating force, and to keep their iron grip.
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> you should configure your dial on demand server to not trigger ont his kind of traffic...
Read the message. This traffic is a plain HTTP Post request, nothing fancy. If you block "this kind of traffic", you essentially make that windows box unusable for surfing.
Btw, I agree with linux_penguin's "dickhead" comment, why was that marked as flamebait? Especially since many people (Europe) actually pay for their local phone calls.
Is it the breakup, or what? Don't come and cry to us if you suddenly can't access your compressed partition because you mistook drvspace.exe for a virus.
Credit card purchases which don't bear the signature or were authorized via the secret PIN code of the owner are the risk of the merchant if there is a contestation. So you would punish innocent bystanders rather than this fellow. And moreover, he'll have a new number within days.
Am I the only one who occasionnaly takes a (cursory) look at the spam they get? Forged spams are really common. The next time you get some spam, take a look at its headers. 7 times out of 10 the easily visible, and also easily forgeable From header doesn't agree at all with the more diffultly forgeable Received headers. This makes sense: within hours, the spammers (apparent) ISP is flooded with complaints, and closes the spammers account if he was careless enough not to forge his headers.
However, there are always a certain percentage of readers who know about these forgeries, and the spammer will lose his account eventually anyways. Btw, there is even a even a web site in which you can paste your spam, and which automatically sends complaints to the correct places: Spamcop.
So, unless this forgery was done with the express purpose of annoying someone at IBM, don't make it into a criminal case; it's just business as usual.
Yeah, a great way to get back at them sharkz: lay out boobytrapped Metallica filez: they'll catch the flu, and hopefully learn the lesson that it's better to leave us geeks alone.
... normally doesn't harm the microwaver. If shaped correctly, it may generate some sparks, but that's it. You can actually get some pretty effect by putting a CD in (please use a Windows CD for this, it won't play after this stunt).
microwave started with nothing inside it
Although using the nuker "empty" is not very good for it, it won't damage it either just from one time.
drying paper towls in the microwave which then catch a light when you take them out
Yes, the nuker is indeed a great tool when you run out of matches. Other ways include: pencils (pretty quick), bread (leave it in for a couple of minutes), chocolate (black chocolate works best: wait til it melted, then leave it for one more minute). Pencil mines are interesting too, but you need something disposable to prop them up against.
And the classic: eggs (no fire, but count a quarter of an hour's work to clean away the mess), soap (use a very small quantity, unless you have a really large nuker).
Can you? Whenever you shop with the card, they have the list of items you bought. From the number of condoms, they can figure out how often you get laid. And if you buy hemorrhoid medication, they can draw their conclusion as well. And don't forget what kind of information they can infer from your book purchases.
no name, age, sex, whatever.
Well, as soon as you use your rebate card together with your credit card, they have your name too. It's a lot like cookies actually. Cookies are also just a number. But as soon as you fill in your personal data into an online form on the Web which leads to a page with a doubleclick ad, then doubleclick has the data too, and can now put a name on the number.
I believe that their Internet connectivity was done through satellite or microwaves or something, which obviously means that there is no physical connection.
There still needs to be some other endpoint though. For microwave this has to be more or less line of sight, which severly limits their choices (it would have to be in Great Britain, and nearby). Which means that GB could still exert a lot of pressure against the island.
As for the satellite link, this is more flexible. The other base station could be almost anywhere. However, who owns the satellite? Couldn't the country of the satellite owner exert some pressure there? Or do the Sealanders plan to launch their own satellite? Btw, as they are an independant country I wonder whether they got allocated their geosynchronous orbital positions?
One of the arguments of capitalists is that the free market will again solve the problem of environmental destruction. After all, how can they make money if the resources needed to produce are not there any more?
The problem is that most environmental resources (clean air, uncharted mines, clean water...) don't belong to anybody in particular. So, a corporation has no incentive to not to waste these resources: indeed, if they don't waste them, their competitors will, and will have a slightly more efficient process. Why waste your own resources (money) when you can waste your neighbour's, or the community's for free? An individuum would still have his sense of morality to prevent him from behaving like a pig, but for a corporation, morality is spelled fiduciary responsibility to the shareholder.
The only solution to the problem is to bill the corporations for the wasted common resources, i.e. tax environment-unfriendly outfits. That way, impact on the environment becomes part of the cost-benefit calculations, and may sway those soul-less corps into the right direction.
Unfortunately, these taxes might be considered as a backdoor to socialism too:(
At my old employer's we used HP-Openmail (running on HP/UX) as a mailserver, and Outlook on the client. This was a very Micro$oft-oriented company, only 2 Linux boxes for 2000 employees, and very "standardized" desktops, where even getting Cygnus Developer's kit was no easy feat. Thus,if HP-Openmail could happen there, I think it won't be a problem in other Micro$oft-centric shops either.
the neighbouring countries? Given that the military in that part of the world is not above doing a coup, why do they hesitate to invade an army-less neighbour, now would they? Yes, I know, normally the government decides on who to wage war with, but after a coup the military is the government.
The point was that if you judge the age of an item by the age of its parts (or material), you should indeed take into account these gas molecules, which one day solidified into iron ore, then became part of the earth crust, then were mined, and finally transformed in those plain stainless steel knives lying around in my kitchen cupboard. Which makes those fancy meteorite knives no older than any other knife on earth.
If on the other hand, you consider the age of the whole, rather than its parts, then you have to be aware that those fancy meteorite knives were carved out of said meteorite quite recently, and that my grand parents' silver cutlery is certainly older. So, no matter how you look at it, these are not the oldest knives of the solar system, let alone the whole universe.
140.000km? Hey, these are LEO satelittes!
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140.000km round-trip would be for geosynchronous satelittes (4 * 36000). But these are low orbitting satelites, who are at an altitude more like 780km. That would make your round-trip 3000km, which is quite manageable (10ms).
I did alittle research on how feasible it would be to launch a satellite to broadcast DeCSS and other controversial materials via wireless -
Soon, on a DVB receiver card near you... Watch this spot...
Well presumably they could shut down such a transmission by using the laws of the country where the ground station is, but we could always claim it was just a test pattern...
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Strings -a reads .doc files too.
Who sayd that jobs involving Linux and open source pay less than closed-source jobs? Two month ago, I left a very Micro$oft centric outfit and switched over to a company with a more open attitude towards Linux. I gained 20% in pay. However, to tie in with the environmental thread, my new situation is harder on the environment: as it is located out of town, I go there by car, whereas I used to take public transportation to get to my previous place of work. Oh, btw: hi Benjamin, are the radiators still there, or does MS give you a chill in the back?
Subject: Possible McDonalds trademark infringement by http://www.peta-online.org/
While surfing on the Web, I came accross http://www.peta-online.org which prominently shows a small banner bearing the face of Ronald McDonald, and the writing "Unhappy Meals", which looks uncomfortably close to your "Happy Meals" trademark. You might want to draw your legal team's attention to this dilution of your trademark.
Your faithfully,
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Example:
January 2000 puts on Microsoft (MSQMJ) are currently priced at $3/4. You buy a package of 100 contract (which you pay $75). Suppose Microsoft gets slammed by the Supreme's (and that they are quick enough to be done until the third Friday in January...), and crash to $40. Your strike price will be $10 lower than the market price, so you pocket the difference: $1000. You just made $925 (the $1000 you made minus the $75 you paid for the options).
If on the other hand it doesn't work out, and they'll hover around $55, it is not interesting to exercise (you'd lose $500 doing so). So you let your option simply expires worthlessly, and you just lost $75 rather than $575.
N.B. In reality, options are actually rarely exercised. What really happens is that as soon as the market price falls below the strike price (for puts), they appreciate tremendously: in our example of Microsoft tanking to $40, the MSQMJ options would be worth $10/option, at which time you'd simply sell them.
The big advantage of put options over short sells is that you can get no margin calls: i.e. you don't get into trouble if Microsoft climbs to $95 before crashing back to $40. Their disadvantage however, is that they do expire: so if for instance the court is slower than you expected, you lose.
If you were able to do an infinitely rigid bar you might get instantenous communication (infinite speed of sound), but the trouble is, there is no such thing as an infinitely rigid bar...
But their primary purpose still is to kill (or to credibly threaten to kill). Similarly, the Internet's primary use today is as a tool to disseminate information, and to "route around censorship". By this, it is a natural ennemy for all dictatorships, the MPAA and other unfriendly organizations: the Internet is not politically neutral. It's thus more than a mere tool. The Chinese now have implemented a way to muzzle this liberating force, and to keep their iron grip.
Read the message. This traffic is a plain HTTP Post request, nothing fancy. If you block "this kind of traffic", you essentially make that windows box unusable for surfing.
Btw, I agree with linux_penguin's "dickhead" comment, why was that marked as flamebait? Especially since many people (Europe) actually pay for their local phone calls.
Parts of it are marked confidential, see begining (lines 8-13 on page 4), so it looks like Mr Gold got his way.
Is it the breakup, or what? Don't come and cry to us if you suddenly can't access your compressed partition because you mistook drvspace.exe for a virus.
Anybody know how to search for something random? Especially on Windows... ROTFL!
Credit card purchases which don't bear the signature or were authorized via the secret PIN code of the owner are the risk of the merchant if there is a contestation. So you would punish innocent bystanders rather than this fellow. And moreover, he'll have a new number within days.
However, there are always a certain percentage of readers who know about these forgeries, and the spammer will lose his account eventually anyways. Btw, there is even a even a web site in which you can paste your spam, and which automatically sends complaints to the correct places: Spamcop.
So, unless this forgery was done with the express purpose of annoying someone at IBM, don't make it into a criminal case; it's just business as usual.
Yeah, a great way to get back at them sharkz: lay out boobytrapped Metallica filez: they'll catch the flu, and hopefully learn the lesson that it's better to leave us geeks alone.
microwave started with nothing inside it
Although using the nuker "empty" is not very good for it, it won't damage it either just from one time.
drying paper towls in the microwave which then catch a light when you take them out
Yes, the nuker is indeed a great tool when you run out of matches. Other ways include: pencils (pretty quick), bread (leave it in for a couple of minutes), chocolate (black chocolate works best: wait til it melted, then leave it for one more minute). Pencil mines are interesting too, but you need something disposable to prop them up against.
And the classic: eggs (no fire, but count a quarter of an hour's work to clean away the mess), soap (use a very small quantity, unless you have a really large nuker).
Can you? Whenever you shop with the card, they have the list of items you bought. From the number of condoms, they can figure out how often you get laid. And if you buy hemorrhoid medication, they can draw their conclusion as well. And don't forget what kind of information they can infer from your book purchases.
no name, age, sex, whatever.
Well, as soon as you use your rebate card together with your credit card, they have your name too. It's a lot like cookies actually. Cookies are also just a number. But as soon as you fill in your personal data into an online form on the Web which leads to a page with a doubleclick ad, then doubleclick has the data too, and can now put a name on the number.
There still needs to be some other endpoint though. For microwave this has to be more or less line of sight, which severly limits their choices (it would have to be in Great Britain, and nearby). Which means that GB could still exert a lot of pressure against the island.
As for the satellite link, this is more flexible. The other base station could be almost anywhere. However, who owns the satellite? Couldn't the country of the satellite owner exert some pressure there? Or do the Sealanders plan to launch their own satellite? Btw, as they are an independant country I wonder whether they got allocated their geosynchronous orbital positions?
You mean, the original barbie dolls are NOT made in some third world country sweatshop?
The problem is that most environmental resources (clean air, uncharted mines, clean water...) don't belong to anybody in particular. So, a corporation has no incentive to not to waste these resources: indeed, if they don't waste them, their competitors will, and will have a slightly more efficient process. Why waste your own resources (money) when you can waste your neighbour's, or the community's for free? An individuum would still have his sense of morality to prevent him from behaving like a pig, but for a corporation, morality is spelled fiduciary responsibility to the shareholder.
The only solution to the problem is to bill the corporations for the wasted common resources, i.e. tax environment-unfriendly outfits. That way, impact on the environment becomes part of the cost-benefit calculations, and may sway those soul-less corps into the right direction.
Unfortunately, these taxes might be considered as a backdoor to socialism too :(
At my old employer's we used HP-Openmail (running on HP/UX) as a mailserver, and Outlook on the client. This was a very Micro$oft-oriented company, only 2 Linux boxes for 2000 employees, and very "standardized" desktops, where even getting Cygnus Developer's kit was no easy feat. Thus,if HP-Openmail could happen there, I think it won't be a problem in other Micro$oft-centric shops either.
the neighbouring countries? Given that the military in that part of the world is not above doing a coup, why do they hesitate to invade an army-less neighbour, now would they? Yes, I know, normally the government decides on who to wage war with, but after a coup the military is the government.
Unfortunately, only Windows drivers will be available, so tough luck defeating that empire with your lightsaber.
If on the other hand, you consider the age of the whole, rather than its parts, then you have to be aware that those fancy meteorite knives were carved out of said meteorite quite recently, and that my grand parents' silver cutlery is certainly older. So, no matter how you look at it, these are not the oldest knives of the solar system, let alone the whole universe.
140.000km round-trip would be for geosynchronous satelittes (4 * 36000). But these are low orbitting satelites, who are at an altitude more like 780km. That would make your round-trip 3000km, which is quite manageable (10ms).
Soon, on a DVB receiver card near you... Watch this spot...
Well presumably they could shut down such a transmission by using the laws of the country where the ground station is, but we could always claim it was just a test pattern...
Could the two parts reassemble once they have safely moved over, or would the executives still face jail penalties if they did?