The EU would be happy if Microsoft were to pull out of Europe so EU developers aren't oppressed by microsoft including WMP for free? Be careful what you ask for...
Checking Windows Genuine Advantage... Please wait.... Please wait.... Please wait.... Operation Timed Out - request denied.
Patricia Dunn is the Chairman of the Board (the person who runs the meetings of the Board of Directors), not the CEO. The CEO is the person who has reponsiblity for the operation of the company.
You'll noticed it specifically says "Non Employee Directors" - for those who thought the notion that HP is entitled to know information because "they are employees".
The Board of Directors are the representatives of the owners to make sure the company's managment is not defrauding the investors (See: Audit Committee), setting the compenstation for its managers and generally working to maximize the value of the stockholder's investment. The job of the Board of Directors is oversight of the managers.
Let's say that every time you went into an oil change facility, they recorded your mileage, license plate number, and date, and forwarded it off to a big central database.
Now if you go to trade in your car, and last month it had 92,000 miles on it when you had your oil changed, and now it has 37,000 miles on it, would you be glad you let the oil change place gather its data?
Of course, if you didn't turn back the odometer trying to unload the car and cheat the car dealer, you wouldn't care, would you?
If only a small percentage of the software Microsoft sells was stolen, there would be no WGA software. It's the people who want to get something for nothing who end up provoking the responses of WGA, DRM, RIAA lawsuits... if you steal stuff, look in the mirror to see who is responsible for creating what you despise.
The R&D department is too busy finding clever ways to obtain the private home and cell phone telephone records of their board of directors in order to force them to quit - for leaking to the press details of internal disagreements within the board about future company plans:
Back in my youth, I worked for Duke Power company and got a tour of one of their coal plants, and a nuclear plant under construction (pre Three Mile Island).
Modern coal plants don't work anything like you might assume... some conveyor belt shoveling coal through a grate into a roaring firebox (like a stream train).
In a coal fired plant, the coal is ground into a fine powder and injected into basically a controlled explosion - kind of like a fuel injector in your car...
The difference in supply and demand results in small changes in the voltage. Hydro or gas turbines kick in immediately when there is a temporary drop in voltage... but coal plants are only slightly slower to bring online and offline. Power companies have very good models to estimate power demand based on time of day, day of week, degree days of cooling/heating, etc...
The power source that is inflexible to adapt to demand is nuclear - for maximum safety and maximizing the life of the fuel, you want to keep them running 24/7 at 100%, regardless of demand.
Another factor to consider is that demand moves with the sun (and the season)... power is no longer a local thing generated and consumed by your local power company... it gets moved where it is needed by market forces (until the grid falls apart like in 2003)...
In addition to altering generation, you can also alter demand... Aluminum (aluminium) requires very large amounts of electricity to smelt... so the smelting plants can become the bottom feeders of electric demand... slow down during periods of high demand and then suck up all the excess electricity during periods of low demand.
As someone else has pointed out, some companies use stored water to take the excess power and pump the water back up the hill to generate hydro power the next day. Not terribly efficient, but "Peak Load Management" is the focus for profibiilty, since bringing new generating capacity online is either horribly expensive or impossible, depending on the NIMBY factor.
If we went to a Chinyanga / Chichewa dictionary, how many words with definitions would we find?
Most of the English / Chinyanga translation dictionaries with a description online seem to be around 380 pages.
In contrast, English/French range from 1200-2000 pages... about the same range for Spanish... the unabridged Oxford English dictionary is about 21,000 pages.
How many books have been published in the language? While people may speak the language, how many are capable of writing and reading it? Was it a written language at all prior to colonization by outsiders?
If the goal is communication of complex ideas, some languages are really better than others. If the most challenging task in your day is communicating "it's time to milk the cows", then what language you use doesn't much matter.
One of the main strengths of English (over French) has been its willingness to integrate non-English words (at the cost of inconsistent grammar and pronunciation rules).
Now a serious question: in a written language like Mandarin, how does one put items in a sequence (I would say alphabetically, but that is Euro-Centric) for locating an entry in the future? - like how do you look up a person's name in a telephone book in Mandarin?
Enough with this childish "tin foil" conspiracy crap already.
If you actually read the story - and use a tiny bit of critical thinking (they still teach some of that in college right?):
"caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload vote totals from several precincts "
"Several Precincts" - does that sound like a widespread problem?
So what kinds of problems?
"The machines' modems either did not get a dial tone or had other problems, Wilson said."
So the poll workers forgot to plug the phone in, or someone didn't realize the phone line was for the voting machine and was using the phone to call their spouse and say they would be home soon.... Exactly how is "no dial tone" a problem with the voting machine?
Since when did Linux vs Windows become a Conservative vs Liberal issue?
You do know that Bill Gates is a big time contributor to the Democratic Party - and led the way in Washington State to provide employment benefits for gay partners of its employees long before it was required by the government, don't you?
Each time you switch someone from Windows to Linux, you're taking future resources out of the Gates Foundation, and its campaign to fight malaria and AIDS in Africa. Do you really want that on your conscience?
If AOL has copies of receipts for large quantities of gold and other precious metals he bought, wouldn't the receipt have a "Deliver to:" Address?:)
Maybe that's why a judge gave the okay to dig here. It would also make the parent's claim of innocence seem a bit insincere.
Of course, that's just a theory. Since he was living out of his car and owns no real estate, maybe he was having Fedex deliver it to his car, and spamming billions of emails using a WiFi connection from his laptop at a Starbucks.
Of course, that's just a theory.
I wonder if the NSA's call detail record database has any calls made to the parent's house from another country? Too bad nobody can access them, isn't it?
Even more troubling - should any manufacturer break with the industry consensus and adopt the technology, that would open the floodgates of litigation that the companies should have developed the safety technology sooner... or a call for the manufacturers to retrofit existing units (for free, of course) to bring them up to the new defacto safety standard. It's not a conincidence that the inventor is a patent attorney.
I need to know - since this is a dispute with companies not wanting to pay an unreasonably high patent royalty, we slashdotters oppose the inventor, right?
Keeping the great unwashed from saying "I'm going to google it" is pretty much impossible.
However, Google's message was sent to publishers - not "consumers". They are saying that they have a problem if publishers allow their writers (say John Dvorak, for example) to misuse their trademarked term. In that instance, Google has a pretty good chance of getting what they want - even if they don't really want it.
Let's say the "bad guy" had a "Runscape Cheats" web site and wanted to grab cookies of the visitor's current Runescape session - which the visitor is actively playing Runescape in aother browswer window. (browsing is not necessarily a serialized sequence of events, which developers sometimes forget)
I'm pretty sure compromising an account isn't that simple - and that Runescape probably took care of any of that type of hole a long time ago. Setting a PIN on the account that is not breakable using a keylogger surely is related to that... but I think you get the idea of how such things are possible, especially with a 13 year old boy trying to "cheat". Just remember back to the AOL days of the scipt kiddies passing around "Password Stealers" - thinking the real purpose of the program was for them to steal someone else's password - rather than the other way around.
Crooks generally do not call up the police when they have been robbed.
The only surprise here is that the general alert level wasn't already raised - given the events in the Middle East and the threats going back and forth.
Then again, on 9/11, the Emergency Broadcast System (now called EAS) - which has been tested regularly as long as I've been alive - was not used in New York to tell people what to do. In retrospect, it looks like the main purpose of EBS/EAS was to give the FCC a revenue stream to fine stations not keeping their equipment functioning or keeping accurate logs of the tests.
If you rely on government to protect you in the event of an emergency, you will likely be disappointed.
Nothing to see here other than the tin-foil hat convention of those who stopped taking their meds.
The tapes were turned over to the national archives.... then they were requested back at NASA and were shipped, but either never arrived or were not logged in and later lost / destroyed / misplaced. The National Archives would not have had the equipment necessary to duplicate one of the tapes to make a copy.
They did find one tape in the national archive that looked right - but when they went to play it, it had a timestamp and digital marking indicating it was a recording from a dry run simulation to test the recording equipment during the spring of 1969...
The issue on the table is that very last machine capable of reading the tape (if it was found) is about to be defunded and scrapped. The people whose employment is dependent on keeping the 40 year old pieces of equipment running have floated the tragedy of the "missing" tapes as justification for not shutting down their facility.
Another very obvious source of mistakes by someone trying to audit from using only logs is BOOKMARKS... if a visitor bookmarks the landing page, and the adwords client is using tracking URLs (and anyone with a clue is), then the tracking URL is saved in the bookmark. When the visitor uses the bookmark again to revisit the site a minute, a day or months later, it "looks" like another Adword click. The only difference will be that the referring URL is blank (bookmarked requests do not send a referring URI).
My web site has extensive metrics and fraud detection built into it (all custom work), and this is a subject I know a *lot* about. I was a significant advertiser from the beginning of Adwords up until early 2005, and remain an Adwords publisher.
As of when I stopped using CPC ads (about 18 months ago), the only CPC middlemen with believable click streams were Google and Overture/Yahoo. I found Google's to be slightly higher quality than Overture, but roughly comparable.
People who specifically did a Google Search on the Google search engine page and then clicked an AdSense ad (or a natural search result) do consistently have higher conversion rates than those who clicked through from 3rd party Adsense Advertisers - that's a fact, and is never going to change and it is NOT evidence of fraud.
The former types of clicks are from highly-motivated searchers, while the latter are just curious because they happened to see an ad on a web site related to your search terms. That's not fraud... it's just understanding the limitations of third party ads and managing your bids appropriately, which takes work and careful analysis of your results.
If you come away from this with one idea in your head - it needs to be - before you cry "fraud", compare the totals from your own reports against the totals that Google (or any CPC source) says they *CHARGED* you for. If google says that on Tuesday, you were charged for 100 clicks, and your "Auditor" says that on Tuesday you had 300 Google Clicks, and 185 of them were "fraud", the problem lies with your auditor, not with Google. [Keep in mind what timezone your web server is in also when trying to understand when "Tuesday" was]
Also don't overlook that the performance of your web site may be part of the problem. All that Google can reliably measure is that they sent a visitor your way - not that they actually arrived and your page loaded. If your firewall blocks certain IP addresses or your landing page loads so slowly that the visitor thinks your server is dead, then you paid for a click that is worthless - not because of what Google did or didn't do, but because the visitor never saw your message. Remember that some of your visitors are still on dialup - have you recently looked to see how many seconds it takes to load your web page on dialup?
The lot costs $235 per month to use..... the 312 space facility has only 175 customers... (presumably the PDF predates the shutdown which was last week). One would also think that it would be possible to oversubscribe the lot.... with the flexibility of the robots, it should be able to juggle more customers.... since some customers would be parking in it during the day to work in Manhattan, others would be city residents who need it to park overnight, etc...
So the place was not doing very well... (the CNN story shows a mostly empty facility if you watch closely)
Slashdot Mirror
It's a good thing Caller ID can't be faked going through VoIP gateways!
The EU would be happy if Microsoft were to pull out of Europe so EU developers aren't oppressed by microsoft including WMP for free? Be careful what you ask for...
Checking Windows Genuine Advantage...
Please wait....
Please wait....
Please wait....
Operation Timed Out - request denied.
Patricia Dunn is the Chairman of the Board (the person who runs the meetings of the Board of Directors), not the CEO. The CEO is the person who has reponsiblity for the operation of the company.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/investor/structure.html
You'll noticed it specifically says "Non Employee Directors" - for those who thought the notion that HP is entitled to know information because "they are employees".
The Board of Directors are the representatives of the owners to make sure the company's managment is not defrauding the investors (See: Audit Committee), setting the compenstation for its managers and generally working to maximize the value of the stockholder's investment. The job of the Board of Directors is oversight of the managers.
Mark Hurd is the CEO and President of HP:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/
Guess some folks should not have skipped those business classes in college... (assuming they are not still in High School)
Here is a better analogy...
Let's say that every time you went into an oil change facility, they recorded your mileage, license plate number, and date, and forwarded it off to a big central database.
Now if you go to trade in your car, and last month it had 92,000 miles on it when you had your oil changed, and now it has 37,000 miles on it, would you be glad you let the oil change place gather its data?
Of course, if you didn't turn back the odometer trying to unload the car and cheat the car dealer, you wouldn't care, would you?
If only a small percentage of the software Microsoft sells was stolen, there would be no WGA software. It's the people who want to get something for nothing who end up provoking the responses of WGA, DRM, RIAA lawsuits... if you steal stuff, look in the mirror to see who is responsible for creating what you despise.
The R&D department is too busy finding clever ways to obtain the private home and cell phone telephone records of their board of directors in order to force them to quit - for leaking to the press details of internal disagreements within the board about future company plans:
k /
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14687677/site/newswee
But we still need a way to blame this on George Bush.... This is Slashdot!
Back in my youth, I worked for Duke Power company and got a tour of one of their coal plants, and a nuclear plant under construction (pre Three Mile Island).
Modern coal plants don't work anything like you might assume... some conveyor belt shoveling coal through a grate into a roaring firebox (like a stream train).
In a coal fired plant, the coal is ground into a fine powder and injected into basically a controlled explosion - kind of like a fuel injector in your car...
The difference in supply and demand results in small changes in the voltage. Hydro or gas turbines kick in immediately when there is a temporary drop in voltage... but coal plants are only slightly slower to bring online and offline. Power companies have very good models to estimate power demand based on time of day, day of week, degree days of cooling/heating, etc...
The power source that is inflexible to adapt to demand is nuclear - for maximum safety and maximizing the life of the fuel, you want to keep them running 24/7 at 100%, regardless of demand.
Another factor to consider is that demand moves with the sun (and the season)... power is no longer a local thing generated and consumed by your local power company... it gets moved where it is needed by market forces (until the grid falls apart like in 2003)...
In addition to altering generation, you can also alter demand... Aluminum (aluminium) requires very large amounts of electricity to smelt... so the smelting plants can become the bottom feeders of electric demand... slow down during periods of high demand and then suck up all the excess electricity during periods of low demand.
As someone else has pointed out, some companies use stored water to take the excess power and pump the water back up the hill to generate hydro power the next day. Not terribly efficient, but "Peak Load Management" is the focus for profibiilty, since bringing new generating capacity online is either horribly expensive or impossible, depending on the NIMBY factor.
If we went to a Chinyanga / Chichewa dictionary, how many words with definitions would we find?
Most of the English / Chinyanga translation dictionaries with a description online seem to be around 380 pages.
In contrast, English/French range from 1200-2000 pages... about the same range for Spanish... the unabridged Oxford English dictionary is about 21,000 pages.
How many books have been published in the language? While people may speak the language, how many are capable of writing and reading it? Was it a written language at all prior to colonization by outsiders?
If the goal is communication of complex ideas, some languages are really better than others. If the most challenging task in your day is communicating "it's time to milk the cows", then what language you use doesn't much matter.
One of the main strengths of English (over French) has been its willingness to integrate non-English words (at the cost of inconsistent grammar and pronunciation rules).
Now a serious question: in a written language like Mandarin, how does one put items in a sequence (I would say alphabetically, but that is Euro-Centric) for locating an entry in the future? - like how do you look up a person's name in a telephone book in Mandarin?
Enough with this childish "tin foil" conspiracy crap already.
If you actually read the story - and use a tiny bit of critical thinking (they still teach some of that in college right?):
"caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload vote totals from several precincts "
"Several Precincts" - does that sound like a widespread problem?
So what kinds of problems?
"The machines' modems either did not get a dial tone or had other problems, Wilson said."
So the poll workers forgot to plug the phone in, or someone didn't realize the phone line was for the voting machine and was using the phone to call their spouse and say they would be home soon.... Exactly how is "no dial tone" a problem with the voting machine?
I was listening to China Radio International this morning, and one of their news stories is about how obesity is becoming a major problem in China.p e=healthNews&storyID=2006-08-18T091627Z_01_HKG6768 4_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-OBESITY.xml
8 352.htm
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?ty
So much for Moms trying to pass along the old "Finish your meal - children in China are starving"....
In a possibly related news story, scientists have determined that Chinese heads are getting smaller.
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2906/2006/08/18/65@12
International.
Inter = Between National = Pertaining to a nation.
A domestic phone call is one between two parties in the same country. An International phone call is a one between parties in two different countries.
Are you this dense or just incredibly full of hate? Or both?
Since when did Linux vs Windows become a Conservative vs Liberal issue?
You do know that Bill Gates is a big time contributor to the Democratic Party - and led the way in Washington State to provide employment benefits for gay partners of its employees long before it was required by the government, don't you?
Each time you switch someone from Windows to Linux, you're taking future resources out of the Gates Foundation, and its campaign to fight malaria and AIDS in Africa. Do you really want that on your conscience?
Little chance of getting hit by the radiation - unless it is the living entity removing that golden record to play it.
Oops! Sorry about that.
(has NASA looked for the missing Apollo 11 tapes on Voyager 1 yet?)
Just a theory...
:)
If AOL has copies of receipts for large quantities of gold and other precious metals he bought, wouldn't the receipt have a "Deliver to:" Address?
Maybe that's why a judge gave the okay to dig here. It would also make the parent's claim of innocence seem a bit insincere.
Of course, that's just a theory. Since he was living out of his car and owns no real estate, maybe he was having Fedex deliver it to his car, and spamming billions of emails using a WiFi connection from his laptop at a Starbucks.
Of course, that's just a theory.
I wonder if the NSA's call detail record database has any calls made to the parent's house from another country? Too bad nobody can access them, isn't it?
If you had to make a regular ham contact and the propogation was wrong, you would just IM them or call them on Skype.
Oops - there goes the justifcation for reserving bandwidth for ham radio.
Insert obligatory Art Bell reference here.
Hey, Art Bell moved recently to the Phillipines - which is in the Pacific. Do you think he knows something we don't?
Even more troubling - should any manufacturer break with the industry consensus and adopt the technology, that would open the floodgates of litigation that the companies should have developed the safety technology sooner... or a call for the manufacturers to retrofit existing units (for free, of course) to bring them up to the new defacto safety standard. It's not a conincidence that the inventor is a patent attorney.
I need to know - since this is a dispute with companies not wanting to pay an unreasonably high patent royalty, we slashdotters oppose the inventor, right?
Keeping the great unwashed from saying "I'm going to google it" is pretty much impossible.
However, Google's message was sent to publishers - not "consumers". They are saying that they have a problem if publishers allow their writers (say John Dvorak, for example) to misuse their trademarked term. In that instance, Google has a pretty good chance of getting what they want - even if they don't really want it.
Let's say the "bad guy" had a "Runscape Cheats" web site and wanted to grab cookies of the visitor's current Runescape session - which the visitor is actively playing Runescape in aother browswer window. (browsing is not necessarily a serialized sequence of events, which developers sometimes forget)
I'm pretty sure compromising an account isn't that simple - and that Runescape probably took care of any of that type of hole a long time ago. Setting a PIN on the account that is not breakable using a keylogger surely is related to that... but I think you get the idea of how such things are possible, especially with a 13 year old boy trying to "cheat". Just remember back to the AOL days of the scipt kiddies passing around "Password Stealers" - thinking the real purpose of the program was for them to steal someone else's password - rather than the other way around.
Crooks generally do not call up the police when they have been robbed.
There are 14.9999999999972 people who did.
Would this law apply to military recruiters?
Yes - CERT is part of DHS. In fact the press release specifically makes the point that US-CERT is one of the DHS departments.
v ice/current-intelligence/global-cyber-threats/2003 /66.html
If you don't think CERT belongs in DHS, just think back to the chaos created by the Blaster worm. A day or two later, the entire Northeast US goes black for days due to a cascading power outage. Coincidence?
http://www.verisign.com/security-intelligence-ser
The only surprise here is that the general alert level wasn't already raised - given the events in the Middle East and the threats going back and forth.
Then again, on 9/11, the Emergency Broadcast System (now called EAS) - which has been tested regularly as long as I've been alive - was not used in New York to tell people what to do. In retrospect, it looks like the main purpose of EBS/EAS was to give the FCC a revenue stream to fine stations not keeping their equipment functioning or keeping accurate logs of the tests.
If you rely on government to protect you in the event of an emergency, you will likely be disappointed.
Nothing to see here other than the tin-foil hat convention of those who stopped taking their meds.
The tapes were turned over to the national archives.... then they were requested back at NASA and were shipped, but either never arrived or were not logged in and later lost / destroyed / misplaced. The National Archives would not have had the equipment necessary to duplicate one of the tapes to make a copy.
They did find one tape in the national archive that looked right - but when they went to play it, it had a timestamp and digital marking indicating it was a recording from a dry run simulation to test the recording equipment during the spring of 1969...
The issue on the table is that very last machine capable of reading the tape (if it was found) is about to be defunded and scrapped. The people whose employment is dependent on keeping the 40 year old pieces of equipment running have floated the tragedy of the "missing" tapes as justification for not shutting down their facility.
Another very obvious source of mistakes by someone trying to audit from using only logs is BOOKMARKS... if a visitor bookmarks the landing page, and the adwords client is using tracking URLs (and anyone with a clue is), then the tracking URL is saved in the bookmark. When the visitor uses the bookmark again to revisit the site a minute, a day or months later, it "looks" like another Adword click. The only difference will be that the referring URL is blank (bookmarked requests do not send a referring URI).
My web site has extensive metrics and fraud detection built into it (all custom work), and this is a subject I know a *lot* about. I was a significant advertiser from the beginning of Adwords up until early 2005, and remain an Adwords publisher.
As of when I stopped using CPC ads (about 18 months ago), the only CPC middlemen with believable click streams were Google and Overture/Yahoo. I found Google's to be slightly higher quality than Overture, but roughly comparable.
People who specifically did a Google Search on the Google search engine page and then clicked an AdSense ad (or a natural search result) do consistently have higher conversion rates than those who clicked through from 3rd party Adsense Advertisers - that's a fact, and is never going to change and it is NOT evidence of fraud.
The former types of clicks are from highly-motivated searchers, while the latter are just curious because they happened to see an ad on a web site related to your search terms. That's not fraud... it's just understanding the limitations of third party ads and managing your bids appropriately, which takes work and careful analysis of your results.
If you come away from this with one idea in your head - it needs to be - before you cry "fraud", compare the totals from your own reports against the totals that Google (or any CPC source) says they *CHARGED* you for. If google says that on Tuesday, you were charged for 100 clicks, and your "Auditor" says that on Tuesday you had 300 Google Clicks, and 185 of them were "fraud", the problem lies with your auditor, not with Google. [Keep in mind what timezone your web server is in also when trying to understand when "Tuesday" was]
Also don't overlook that the performance of your web site may be part of the problem. All that Google can reliably measure is that they sent a visitor your way - not that they actually arrived and your page loaded. If your firewall blocks certain IP addresses or your landing page loads so slowly that the visitor thinks your server is dead, then you paid for a click that is worthless - not because of what Google did or didn't do, but because the visitor never saw your message. Remember that some of your visitors are still on dialup - have you recently looked to see how many seconds it takes to load your web page on dialup?
Following up my own post (sorry!)...
p df
Here is more specific information, along with a major clue:
http://www.hobokennj.org/pdf/parku/parking_rates.
The lot costs $235 per month to use..... the 312 space facility has only 175 customers... (presumably the PDF predates the shutdown which was last week). One would also think that it would be possible to oversubscribe the lot.... with the flexibility of the robots, it should be able to juggle more customers.... since some customers would be parking in it during the day to work in Manhattan, others would be city residents who need it to park overnight, etc...
So the place was not doing very well... (the CNN story shows a mostly empty facility if you watch closely)