What's the problem with an store that helps me find what I need, when I need it?
So they have a good guess on when my family events are, and what my sex/marital status/etc is. That's it. They have a guess, it may be a good one, it may be an excellent one, but it's just that -a guess- and not hard data.
So what's a rent-a-cop to do if you just try to keep walking out the door beyond getting in front of you?? Grab you?? AFAIK (IANAL)Forcefully detaining a civilian is assault pretty much for every citizen except public law enforcement.
Club or no club, contract of no contract. You cannot force or be forced to perform on a contract by anyone except by order of a judge. And in that case it is public law enforcement the only ones who can enforce (potentially forcefully) that you perform according to the judge's ruling.
>At what point do they decide that they want human flesh instead of flies/rotten apples?
We need a renewable source of energy that is abundant, easy to find and refine that pollutes the least amount possible during use. This process doesn't look suited to carry us further. Sure it can recycle the apple cores I dump while acting as pesticide, however there must be more efficient ways to provide power than breaking down such hugely complex things as insects and apples... Which, mind you, takes an incredible amount of energy to 'grow' in the first place; so the net effect is an inordinate growth to the overall entropy.
Committing a crime will land you in jail, and normally so is hiring someone to do it on your behalf. Advertisers beware!
As spyware and such activities become illegal, there is opportunity for an attorney that wants to get his/her name in the media to go after the ADVERTISERS that hire these companies.
This is going to be so much fun to watch!
Consider Ads the Spyware of websites. You accept ads much as those people that have given up on spyware accept that "free software carries spyware". Bullshit^2.
At least the time-share companies give you a microwave oven. These phone-tards just waste our time without anything to show for it.
I want a system whereby they have to pay *me* every time they call me.
Cover Your Ass is the name of the game
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Paying 10M to someone while others 10K for their time is a bit of an excess, don't you think?
Especially when you consider the differences between humans are not that great.
The real name of the game is called "Cover Your Ass". When you're on the brink of collapse and are sitting in the board of a company, have Wall Street and the entire company watching what you do next, and you have the alternative of hiring Joe Blow for $100K a year whom you KNOW will do a better job, vs. hiring Jobs for $10M, whom you imagine will do ok, what do you do??
Simple: Cover your ass. If you hire Jobs and he does ok, he gets the laurels and nothing comes of it. If he runs the company to the ground, he gets tarnished and *you did all you could* - you went out and got THE BEST. If you hire Joe Blow, and he does fine, he gets the laurels all the same. However, if you hired Joe Blow and he runs the company to the ground, guess who's going to take the fall? YOU ARE!
It's not what you have, but the knowledge of how to get it - coupled with the technology to access it seamlessly.
Yesterday it was a Ramdisk, now its a hard-drive, tomorrow you'll use a SAN at home, in six years your SAN will be a Wide-Area-SAN.
You'll share the pointers to the files, not the data itself, that makes as much sense as zipping up a website and e-mailing it instead of sending the URL.
As far as music is concerned, the technology is not just there... It's way past the point where your dream is real, very real. But what is holding your dream back is not technology, its the assumption by lobbyist that we're going to eat their pie, we're going to eat it the way they want it, and anyone who doesn't want pie must be a pirate that has to be exterminated.
I thought one of the key advantages of an ion engine was that the speed of the exhaust would enable it to travel (eventually) at near light speed velocities (ok, maybe 3/4ths). And one of the key drawbacks was that acceleration was painfully slow.
Too funny.
Have a look at the CIA World Factbook location this company claims to be based on. Its a Natural preserve with 4-20 Nature Conservancy staff... Too funny.
I welcome this with arms wide open. They can have all my data, charge me less for driving safe and charge the 100-mph lunatics more. What do I lose? Privacy? Pfft! Like I ever had some after Patriot.
What did this guy invent? Wrapping yourself in a projector screen? Standing in front of a projector?
This is not just stupid. It's a hoax. There is no invention here, move along.
Except those in need of mass bandwidth, normal users treat badnwidth as a commodity. Its there to check your e-mail and surf around a bit, maybe IM your friends. Wireless is an extension of the wired bandwidth and as such it was destined to be commoditized very quickly.
Imagine going to an Admirals Club at an airport and finding that there's a meter on the power outlet and you have to have a long-term contract with T-Power before juice flows. The bandwith-as-the-service model has very short legs, and its showing; all the managers at telcos I've spoken with are moving forward in the direcition of value-added services on top of their bandwith and understand bandwidth is already a commodity.
Think of the number of sites and passwords you have. Now think of the number of traings you woul dhave to do, and the possibility of mental jumble increases rapidly. I'm sure people can remember the patterns much more easily since its the only such pattern they have associated to 'authentication' or 'weird scientific trial'. Try to keep the sequences straight once your mind groups everything into one 'authentication' or 'internet' bin and you have 20 passwords to remember.
If authentication is so critical to justify a system such as this and the time expense of learning it, etc, I would suggest o go with two-factor authentication systems such as SecurID or similar systems.
Even if MS didn't include WMP in windows I still wouldn't use Real player. The hostile way it behaves on systems is just unacceptable for any software. I take this lawsuits the same way as if Gator was saying that its sales were hurt by Google's monopolistic practices: Nonsense. It has nothing to do with leveraging the OS platform to push a media player and everything to do with a bloated piece of spyware people REFUSE to load.
Personally, I use WinAMP.... And I long for the day when Spybot S&D or my AV tool quarantine and delete the little sucker to oblivion.
I've never been asked for the specific months of employment in any interview. I've had interviews that lasted anywhere from 3 to 5 days with 1-on-1 as well as 1-on-6 sessions, gotten offers, and not ever been asked about months. Thus far there are no gaps (lucky?) but even if there were I don't see a point in either hiding or highlighting them.
Frankly if someone went to drill me on the specific months, I'd have a really hard time remembering - but I'd be curious about why they want to know and openly ask them if there is something specific they'd like to know more about. I talk straight and I expect my interviewer to do the same.
Oh.. And for future job applicants, please never forget to interview your future manager(s). Yes, you need to interview THEM. Make sure they match you or walk away. You'll be sorry if you force-fit yourself.
I can already see myself walking into a WalMart where a large sign reads "It is a felony to carry an RFID Jammer into a public store."
Gotta love the promise of a battle of wits between the "RFID everywhere" camp and the inevitable industry of "jammers" and "cloakers" that will spring up.
PS: Wait until paper money has this...
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What's the problem with an store that helps me find what I need, when I need it? So they have a good guess on when my family events are, and what my sex/marital status/etc is. That's it. They have a guess, it may be a good one, it may be an excellent one, but it's just that -a guess- and not hard data.
So what's a rent-a-cop to do if you just try to keep walking out the door beyond getting in front of you?? Grab you?? AFAIK (IANAL)Forcefully detaining a civilian is assault pretty much for every citizen except public law enforcement.
Club or no club, contract of no contract. You cannot force or be forced to perform on a contract by anyone except by order of a judge. And in that case it is public law enforcement the only ones who can enforce (potentially forcefully) that you perform according to the judge's ruling.
We need a renewable source of energy that is abundant, easy to find and refine that pollutes the least amount possible during use. This process doesn't look suited to carry us further. Sure it can recycle the apple cores I dump while acting as pesticide, however there must be more efficient ways to provide power than breaking down such hugely complex things as insects and apples... Which, mind you, takes an incredible amount of energy to 'grow' in the first place; so the net effect is an inordinate growth to the overall entropy.
Committing a crime will land you in jail, and normally so is hiring someone to do it on your behalf. Advertisers beware! As spyware and such activities become illegal, there is opportunity for an attorney that wants to get his/her name in the media to go after the ADVERTISERS that hire these companies. This is going to be so much fun to watch!
Consider Ads the Spyware of websites. You accept ads much as those people that have given up on spyware accept that "free software carries spyware". Bullshit^2.
At least the time-share companies give you a microwave oven. These phone-tards just waste our time without anything to show for it. I want a system whereby they have to pay *me* every time they call me.
Especially when you consider the differences between humans are not that great.
The real name of the game is called "Cover Your Ass". When you're on the brink of collapse and are sitting in the board of a company, have Wall Street and the entire company watching what you do next, and you have the alternative of hiring Joe Blow for $100K a year whom you KNOW will do a better job, vs. hiring Jobs for $10M, whom you imagine will do ok, what do you do??
Simple: Cover your ass. If you hire Jobs and he does ok, he gets the laurels and nothing comes of it. If he runs the company to the ground, he gets tarnished and *you did all you could* - you went out and got THE BEST. If you hire Joe Blow, and he does fine, he gets the laurels all the same. However, if you hired Joe Blow and he runs the company to the ground, guess who's going to take the fall? YOU ARE!
It's not what you have, but the knowledge of how to get it - coupled with the technology to access it seamlessly.
Yesterday it was a Ramdisk, now its a hard-drive, tomorrow you'll use a SAN at home, in six years your SAN will be a Wide-Area-SAN.
You'll share the pointers to the files, not the data itself, that makes as much sense as zipping up a website and e-mailing it instead of sending the URL.
As far as music is concerned, the technology is not just there... It's way past the point where your dream is real, very real. But what is holding your dream back is not technology, its the assumption by lobbyist that we're going to eat their pie, we're going to eat it the way they want it, and anyone who doesn't want pie must be a pirate that has to be exterminated.
I thought one of the key advantages of an ion engine was that the speed of the exhaust would enable it to travel (eventually) at near light speed velocities (ok, maybe 3/4ths). And one of the key drawbacks was that acceleration was painfully slow.
Too funny. Have a look at the CIA World Factbook location this company claims to be based on. Its a Natural preserve with 4-20 Nature Conservancy staff... Too funny.
I welcome this with arms wide open. They can have all my data, charge me less for driving safe and charge the 100-mph lunatics more. What do I lose? Privacy? Pfft! Like I ever had some after Patriot.
What did this guy invent? Wrapping yourself in a projector screen? Standing in front of a projector? This is not just stupid. It's a hoax. There is no invention here, move along.
Except those in need of mass bandwidth, normal users treat badnwidth as a commodity. Its there to check your e-mail and surf around a bit, maybe IM your friends. Wireless is an extension of the wired bandwidth and as such it was destined to be commoditized very quickly. Imagine going to an Admirals Club at an airport and finding that there's a meter on the power outlet and you have to have a long-term contract with T-Power before juice flows. The bandwith-as-the-service model has very short legs, and its showing; all the managers at telcos I've spoken with are moving forward in the direcition of value-added services on top of their bandwith and understand bandwidth is already a commodity.
Think of the number of sites and passwords you have. Now think of the number of traings you woul dhave to do, and the possibility of mental jumble increases rapidly. I'm sure people can remember the patterns much more easily since its the only such pattern they have associated to 'authentication' or 'weird scientific trial'. Try to keep the sequences straight once your mind groups everything into one 'authentication' or 'internet' bin and you have 20 passwords to remember. If authentication is so critical to justify a system such as this and the time expense of learning it, etc, I would suggest o go with two-factor authentication systems such as SecurID or similar systems.
"Wux" anyone?
Even if MS didn't include WMP in windows I still wouldn't use Real player. The hostile way it behaves on systems is just unacceptable for any software. I take this lawsuits the same way as if Gator was saying that its sales were hurt by Google's monopolistic practices: Nonsense. It has nothing to do with leveraging the OS platform to push a media player and everything to do with a bloated piece of spyware people REFUSE to load. Personally, I use WinAMP.... And I long for the day when Spybot S&D or my AV tool quarantine and delete the little sucker to oblivion.
I've never been asked for the specific months of employment in any interview. I've had interviews that lasted anywhere from 3 to 5 days with 1-on-1 as well as 1-on-6 sessions, gotten offers, and not ever been asked about months. Thus far there are no gaps (lucky?) but even if there were I don't see a point in either hiding or highlighting them.
Frankly if someone went to drill me on the specific months, I'd have a really hard time remembering - but I'd be curious about why they want to know and openly ask them if there is something specific they'd like to know more about. I talk straight and I expect my interviewer to do the same.
Oh.. And for future job applicants, please never forget to interview your future manager(s). Yes, you need to interview THEM. Make sure they match you or walk away. You'll be sorry if you force-fit yourself.
I can already see myself walking into a WalMart where a large sign reads "It is a felony to carry an RFID Jammer into a public store." Gotta love the promise of a battle of wits between the "RFID everywhere" camp and the inevitable industry of "jammers" and "cloakers" that will spring up. PS: Wait until paper money has this...