Use FlexLM (license server tied to a hardware address - defeatable, but annoying) like the the majority of other vendors. Also, try to remember that you're company is in it's infancy. The more publicity and use your product gets the better. Better to lock it down after more people use it than before.
I've read the bill's text but I haven't ascertained any rationale for it. Clearly they think there is some cost savings to be realized, but where? All that will really happen is the skilled workers will get salaries/wages to offset the loss of overtime, leaving the less skilled and fresh grads with the less desirable pay/positions. The net result is less people will want to get into IT due to this new barrier to entry.
Anyone who loves the franchise will be excited about this news and thus it's worth mentioning. Just because it's not unexpected doesn't mean it lacks relevance.
While they are computing devices I don't see why the comparison is being made. None of those devices are really true PC replacements in most senses of the word. Those are devices you use to get some work, or play, done when you don't have the luxury of a full-speed, full-size machine. In this sense they may as well include touch screen MP3 players and eReaders too.
People left to colonize North America because they were trying to get away from something, usually tyrannical rule. These are scientists who would be voluntarily accepting a death sentence that might happen in 5 years, or maybe 2, or maybe right after launch. Either way, they would be leaving for the purpose of scientific advancement whereas colonists were leaving to make a better life for themselves and their families.
Also, what happens when they get there, or are enroute, and decide they want to come home? What a public relations nightmare.
I loved how I was able to auto-add friends based on my Gmail contacts. It saved me so much time searching and adding manually. I still love how the picture from Facebook is integrated into my contacts automatically on my phone. I'm sure there are other examples I'm overlooking as well. The bottom line is, the data in my contacts in mine. The data on my Facebook site is mine. I'm accepting the risk by sharing the credentials of either site with the other. Take your turf war elsewhere guys and let me have my integration.
I am hoping a partial transplant of even a micro-sized lobe might be sufficient to bump them back up to capacity.
I take somewhat of an issue with this. That's tantamount to people being able to say, "I'll just beat my liver up until it starts to die and then top it back off." You laugh, but when you see parents *driving* alongside their kids while they trick-or-treat you'll never again underestimate the laziness potential being housed in this country.
You can put an Earth-sized planet where Pluto is and that's not going to mean anything. Assuming they mean "habitable" from the perspective of humans, the appropriately-sized planet must also be at the sweet spot distance from the Sun for moderate temperatures, have a moon to stabilize rotation for normalized weather patterns, and also produce a strong enough magnetosphere to protect an atmosphere. This is completely ignoring a lot of other factors that come into play as well, but the bottom line is I think it's a little premature to start designating M-class planets.
I don't know that the difficulty is that much lower, just the overall amount of gameplay. This due in large to the amount of detail and attention required to create the same amount of content today v/s previous years. Ignoring the game mechanics, a game like the Legend of Zelda would take very little time to string together graphically. Now, creating that same amount of real estate with today's graphical expectations would take a team of designers and graphicc artists a VERY long time. It's not enough that there be a two-dimensional tree, that same tree needs to have moving branches and leaves and wildlife with varying levels of detail depending on hardware. It needs to be destructable or at least show damage. Heck, most gamers would probably expect to be able to climb it too. All of these aspects take time, and money, and thus the amount of content, not the diffculty, suffers.
They're proposing we build a sail that when viewed two-dimensionally next to Earth is over half the size of the entire planet? Even if you ignore the issue of space debris punching holes in this thing left and right the logistics of creating and "stitching" this together in space are unbelievable.
We all knew this was coming. It was only a matter of time before a carrier did that and as soon as it happened anyone with most of their brain active could tell the rest of the carriers would follow suit within 2 years. Someone might offer unlimited data, but it won't be a carrier that the majority of the world will care about. Having said that there's little reason to jump ship. However, you might be able to finagle an early upgrade date for your "New Every Two".
Steven Wildridge, managing director of Animalcare, the company that runs Anibase, said, "This is a common problem that can occur if a dog is involved in a marital dispute or it is lost or stolen."
Are those not the precise circumstances you'd hope to remedy by procuring the chip to begin with? I understand it may not be legal for them to randomly hand over information provided to them, but there should be no issue with them handing the information over to authorities and allowing them to determine the dog's ownership. If the current "owner" can't prove a consentual transaction took place than the dog goes back to the original owner. Someone has to have jurisdiction to remedy these type of cases.
Even if the numbers/strip are obscured without a PIN the finger smudges on the card over the commonly used numbers will make the PIN a trivial matter to guess. What is the point of this security? Would you not call in the card missing/stolen just because it has better security?
Slow your roll buddy. My statement was based on the email containing what he says it contains. Whether that's the case or not, the comment is still valid for the scenario prescribed. If that's not what it contained then this whole discussion is purely academic anyway.
It was handled poorly, but it needed to be handled. There's an evolution to things like this that get away from you if you take small enough steps...
"Your leader is a punk"...
"Your leader is awful"...
"I hate your leader"...
"I wish your leader was removed from office"...
"I wish your leader was dead"...
"I wish someone would kill your leader"...
"I'm going to kill your leader"
It doesn't take very long to get from calling someone a punk to saying you're going to kill them. You can argue that wishing or threatening harm to someone is where the line is drawn, but it's all about baby steps. If you take small enough ones eventually you'll get there, and the administration knows that.
That said, banning someone from the country is too much, certainly for that statement anyway. It should have been handled, but certainly not that harshly. If my kid calls 911, they call back and say don't do that. They don't pick him up and throw him in juvi for 6 months.
As if our country isn't obese enough already. Now we'll eventually have people getting beer and Doritos without even getting their fat asses off the couch.
The internet is basically hosted on public infrastructure. Until the government decides to lay down it's own lines (above and beyond what it currently has, which in no way would support national bandwidth requirements) and host it on hardened equipment there's little the administration can do other than wave their finger and say, "Hey you guys, make this safer!" And to be honest, this has a lot less to do with protecting us from cyber threats and a lot more to do with implementing federal taxation on usage/commerce as well as visibility of data in and out of any node on the national network without all the red tape that's currently involved. You can call me a conspiracist, but it doesn't sound as crazy when you consider all the truly critical Government/Military traffic is already hosted on dedicated government-owned lines/equipment.
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Next there will be weapons created that can literally immobilize you through fear. Funny, is this not exactly what the Scarecrow did in Batman?
Use FlexLM (license server tied to a hardware address - defeatable, but annoying) like the the majority of other vendors. Also, try to remember that you're company is in it's infancy. The more publicity and use your product gets the better. Better to lock it down after more people use it than before.
This is great, but you can bet someone will find a medication that artificially lowers brainwaves to get out of doing work.
I've read the bill's text but I haven't ascertained any rationale for it. Clearly they think there is some cost savings to be realized, but where? All that will really happen is the skilled workers will get salaries/wages to offset the loss of overtime, leaving the less skilled and fresh grads with the less desirable pay/positions. The net result is less people will want to get into IT due to this new barrier to entry.
Anyone who loves the franchise will be excited about this news and thus it's worth mentioning. Just because it's not unexpected doesn't mean it lacks relevance.
Ok, put me down for $8bil that it doesn't hit. I'll let my great x 10^37 grandchildren settle up this wager.
While they are computing devices I don't see why the comparison is being made. None of those devices are really true PC replacements in most senses of the word. Those are devices you use to get some work, or play, done when you don't have the luxury of a full-speed, full-size machine. In this sense they may as well include touch screen MP3 players and eReaders too.
What exactly is a stockpile of cyber weapons? A room full of nerds and a case of Mountain Dew?
People left to colonize North America because they were trying to get away from something, usually tyrannical rule. These are scientists who would be voluntarily accepting a death sentence that might happen in 5 years, or maybe 2, or maybe right after launch. Either way, they would be leaving for the purpose of scientific advancement whereas colonists were leaving to make a better life for themselves and their families.
Also, what happens when they get there, or are enroute, and decide they want to come home? What a public relations nightmare.
I loved how I was able to auto-add friends based on my Gmail contacts. It saved me so much time searching and adding manually. I still love how the picture from Facebook is integrated into my contacts automatically on my phone. I'm sure there are other examples I'm overlooking as well. The bottom line is, the data in my contacts in mine. The data on my Facebook site is mine. I'm accepting the risk by sharing the credentials of either site with the other. Take your turf war elsewhere guys and let me have my integration.
I am hoping a partial transplant of even a micro-sized lobe might be sufficient to bump them back up to capacity.
I take somewhat of an issue with this. That's tantamount to people being able to say, "I'll just beat my liver up until it starts to die and then top it back off." You laugh, but when you see parents *driving* alongside their kids while they trick-or-treat you'll never again underestimate the laziness potential being housed in this country.
How often am I going to have to swap this out? Is there a MDBF (mean drinks before failure)?
You can put an Earth-sized planet where Pluto is and that's not going to mean anything. Assuming they mean "habitable" from the perspective of humans, the appropriately-sized planet must also be at the sweet spot distance from the Sun for moderate temperatures, have a moon to stabilize rotation for normalized weather patterns, and also produce a strong enough magnetosphere to protect an atmosphere. This is completely ignoring a lot of other factors that come into play as well, but the bottom line is I think it's a little premature to start designating M-class planets.
I don't know that the difficulty is that much lower, just the overall amount of gameplay. This due in large to the amount of detail and attention required to create the same amount of content today v/s previous years. Ignoring the game mechanics, a game like the Legend of Zelda would take very little time to string together graphically. Now, creating that same amount of real estate with today's graphical expectations would take a team of designers and graphicc artists a VERY long time. It's not enough that there be a two-dimensional tree, that same tree needs to have moving branches and leaves and wildlife with varying levels of detail depending on hardware. It needs to be destructable or at least show damage. Heck, most gamers would probably expect to be able to climb it too. All of these aspects take time, and money, and thus the amount of content, not the diffculty, suffers.
They're proposing we build a sail that when viewed two-dimensionally next to Earth is over half the size of the entire planet? Even if you ignore the issue of space debris punching holes in this thing left and right the logistics of creating and "stitching" this together in space are unbelievable.
We all knew this was coming. It was only a matter of time before a carrier did that and as soon as it happened anyone with most of their brain active could tell the rest of the carriers would follow suit within 2 years. Someone might offer unlimited data, but it won't be a carrier that the majority of the world will care about. Having said that there's little reason to jump ship. However, you might be able to finagle an early upgrade date for your "New Every Two".
Steven Wildridge, managing director of Animalcare, the company that runs Anibase, said, "This is a common problem that can occur if a dog is involved in a marital dispute or it is lost or stolen."
Are those not the precise circumstances you'd hope to remedy by procuring the chip to begin with? I understand it may not be legal for them to randomly hand over information provided to them, but there should be no issue with them handing the information over to authorities and allowing them to determine the dog's ownership. If the current "owner" can't prove a consentual transaction took place than the dog goes back to the original owner. Someone has to have jurisdiction to remedy these type of cases.
Even if the numbers/strip are obscured without a PIN the finger smudges on the card over the commonly used numbers will make the PIN a trivial matter to guess. What is the point of this security? Would you not call in the card missing/stolen just because it has better security?
Slow your roll buddy. My statement was based on the email containing what he says it contains. Whether that's the case or not, the comment is still valid for the scenario prescribed. If that's not what it contained then this whole discussion is purely academic anyway.
It was handled poorly, but it needed to be handled. There's an evolution to things like this that get away from you if you take small enough steps...
"Your leader is a punk"...
"Your leader is awful"...
"I hate your leader"...
"I wish your leader was removed from office"...
"I wish your leader was dead"...
"I wish someone would kill your leader"...
"I'm going to kill your leader"
It doesn't take very long to get from calling someone a punk to saying you're going to kill them. You can argue that wishing or threatening harm to someone is where the line is drawn, but it's all about baby steps. If you take small enough ones eventually you'll get there, and the administration knows that.
That said, banning someone from the country is too much, certainly for that statement anyway. It should have been handled, but certainly not that harshly. If my kid calls 911, they call back and say don't do that. They don't pick him up and throw him in juvi for 6 months.
As if our country isn't obese enough already. Now we'll eventually have people getting beer and Doritos without even getting their fat asses off the couch.
The internet is basically hosted on public infrastructure. Until the government decides to lay down it's own lines (above and beyond what it currently has, which in no way would support national bandwidth requirements) and host it on hardened equipment there's little the administration can do other than wave their finger and say, "Hey you guys, make this safer!" And to be honest, this has a lot less to do with protecting us from cyber threats and a lot more to do with implementing federal taxation on usage/commerce as well as visibility of data in and out of any node on the national network without all the red tape that's currently involved. You can call me a conspiracist, but it doesn't sound as crazy when you consider all the truly critical Government/Military traffic is already hosted on dedicated government-owned lines/equipment.
It's easy to avoid sports-related, travelling, or stress-related fatalities if you're passed out on the deck.
Does it have a giant red LED and talk in a very calm, soothing voice?
They can already read your data and email now. Why is it more embarrassing for them to read the stuff after you die than before?