Yeah you can look at the rate of change in browser usage. The fastest growing market in terms of percentage growth is the Mozilla family - I dont know of any spyware getting through Mozilla yet.
Relocate the server to some small island in international waters or some country that doesn't give a Flying...ya know... about U.S. laws like North Korea.
How about having no splash screen as an option and let everyone else stare at the pretty picture for N seconds. I have so many windows open that I don't need to have something else occupying my desktop. To me, splash screens are annoying like browser popups - which I haven't seen in months thanks Mozzy that also has the alias & shortcut command option of nosplash.
Oh yeah issue - my pay is indeed lower due to the premiums my employers has to pay. Lets take an extreme example and follow your lead - an employer is required to pay earthquake insurance if I live in California. As you said no one buys it so lets make the employer pay for it via federal regulation mandate. Lets keep it extreme by making the insurance cost 100k a year do you think that wouldn't come out of my check? I seriously doubt a company could pay 100k a year to an engineer and another 100k for insurance plus the other benefits. As goofy as it sounds to associate earthquake insurance with unemployment insurances should be as goofy sounding as making any insurance mandatory - I should be able to direct the funds for this insurance as I want. It's like GW trying to get part of the Social Security (that is yours) into privatized hands.
you have already agreed to work for them for your current salary
The market would balance itself in time. I should get a small raise, as the employer would be in competition from other employers. Remember companies want to make the employment decision not the other way around where the employees make the decisions.
No one will sell you private unemployment insurance... (that) you can afford
Because the market is monopolized - the funds that could have been spent on the insurance is already allocated to a mandated one.
I would leap at the opportunity to self-insure myself. If my employer would compensate me for what they pay in insurance premiums to reflect that amount in my weekly check than I could. I would take what I pay in the insurance plus that weekly bonus and set aside additional funds on top of what I am already saving just as you described.
However, I called my payroll department and they said it wasn't voluntary payment - I am forced to pay it. So I in a monopolized system being forced to pay it running a higher risk in the regulated system.
If a firm has a big history of laying-off then federal involvement still wont help said firm, as the market will adjust for any company faster than any laws or reuglation can. In the event of a large scale depression, I am still at a higher risk under a mandated system rather than a self regulated one as again I am loosing income to an inadequate system.
When the Federal Government steps it usually becomes an XOR case. Case in point - Unemployment Insurance. Early in the 190O's or so, private insurances were just starting to sell Unemployment Insurance - you know what happened later the federal government enacted the "Deal" which incorporated benefits for being laid off. Now lets fast forward 50-60 years to today. I would prefer to have private Unemployment Insurances as I am in the software world, which is very unstable. I would be willing to buy insurance from a private company for several hindered dollars a week if anyone would sell it. But guess what - there isn't a market because the federal government mandated Unemployment insurance already. This is a reader's digest version so go read the detailed history if you really want to.
So yes, federal involvement usually becomes an XOR problem.
Ok George Bush didn't outlaw Steam Cell Research; He ceased giving federal funding for new steam cell lines. And remember he was the first president to start giving money to this kind of research. At least read his statment first and then search google to get the facts
Even after that before you start bashing, ask who should be in charge of developing medicine - the government or industry?
As preposterous as the comic book debacle seems it is true. I saw the story on the history channel and one the targets was Mad Comic books aka Mad *Magazine*. See to get around the issue, the owners ceased calling it a comic book and named it called it a magazine as defined by that days statutes.
Don't call it crazy because look at the year 1954 and subtract just a few years - you'll find a time where the US legislate Prohibition into law. Crazy things happen when bounds aren't kept within check.
Your correct but this reminds me of the Registration backlash against TurboTax 2002. TurboTax lost market share due to having to contact the TurboTax server to get authentication for the tax product. People know that software companies fade over the years and to have something so important tied to a company that may not be there one day turned many customers off to the product. Many sought alternative ETax solutions. And as any license issue, Money talks louder than the Pen.
Now am I expecting people to associate the longevity of a game with the required longevity of tax returns? Of course not but I was thinking about purchasing HL2 but I think I'll pass until the dust settles instead of the risk/hassle of the validation scheme.
I rank Pivot Tables about #1 in usefullness. Followed by autofilter, Vlookup, conditional Formating and regular old little VBS scripts. What are some of the higher features you guys use?
You're not really looking at anything useful while you're using the restroom - why not let some company come in and install ads there? Why not let the ads run on the TV while going for refreshment...
And when you're lying in bed, getting ready to go to sleep (or just waking up), there's a perfect blank space on your ceiling for some more ads.
Lets back load all adds from TIVO to certain hours of the day. My Tivo is never turned off but I turn off the TV and sleep. This is an optimal time for all commercials to run. Let the Tivo unit run commercials like a screen saver.
And if you're taking a walk in the woods, hey, you've seen one tree, you've seen 'em all, right? Ads!
Hmm I'm not sure where your going with this but if it's your land do with it as you legally please.
Just because a space is empty does NOT mean it's OK to put ads there.
Like I said try to twist everything to benefit you.
Tivo should be careful. As I imagine more people will become interested in messing with the software in TIVO as it does run Linux. Example, on the major Tivo boards, they don't talk about subscription stealing because Tivo threatened legal litigation over such discussion - fair enough. But if Tivo Corp goes too far than there will be a backlash and people will go just as far. People would (and some do) install a larger drive, hack the advertisement feature, re-add 30 second skip and while messing with it mid as well get a free subscription to boot.
I don't really want to see Tivo go down the tubes but I can imagine that the development community would pick up the charred remnants and actually produce a better product.
Maybe Disney will release the ray tracing to povray in a sort-of-like-way of distributed community rendering. Sort of like the reverse of what we would like to see in Star wars 7+.
This is a double-edged sword. It seems that the issue is the DVD players right? Well the people producing the DVD is stuffing the commercial on them. The market can't seem to be able to adjust to the advertisements because of people like me. I rip out the commercials and watch them on any player with intrusion. The Hardware manufactures are forced to have certain "features" installed on their software of the consortiums won't give them a license. Huh tough isn't it.
Now the money issue and the sword: Ok so we have determined that the hardware manufactures are only partially responsible for the situation. Now the producer of the DVD thinks that advertisement = revenue. What is the producer to do when revenues fall? Advertise - I see no end to the problem. More regulation wont help as if you start sending your customer to jail than which will further reduce your income base.
My Replay-TV does. It has a flag that automagically skips commercials. Recently, replay was forced to remove that future due to legal threats. However, the code was left in the machines and you can modify a flag to automatically skip the commercials with a small code modification.
Hmmm, this dosn't sound good. You know all those freaking commerical up front on say Disney DVDs. I rip about 30 minuts of that crap out so if the kiddies want to watch something, all I have to do is put in the cd and walk away - it autoplays the movies instead of the watching 30 minutes+ of commericals and then hitting play (like that isn't what I wanted to do in the first place).
I rip that stuff out and backup the DVDs to another DVD for this reason plus it child-proofs the orignal.
Yeah its quite funny. I made a bunch of mistakes not really worried about it just to see how many interation it would go through. Now if the guys talking about VB would produce an example; it would set an example of wiki power.
Robert McHenry asked "how would they recognize it once they had (Shakespeare)"
Simple. For each Shakespeare literature there would be another million monkeys reading and discussing the article. Thus you have a million writing monkeys and you would have maybe a million million reading monkeys; thus, the noise from the million million monkeys during discussion would drive the million monkeys.
See the infinite monkey rule isn't good to apply as that rule doesn't facilitate feedback from the system.
640 bits should be enough for anybody
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Rest assured that unless some one finds a mathematical back door that the algorithms approaching 1024bits will not be the weakest link in the security of your data (at least with hardware today). Just have a look at the key space in Distributed's RC5-72 vs. RC5-64. The key space for RC5-72 is astronomically higher than RC5-64.
Usually, the weakest link will be the user using short keys or the user using the same password on a weaker system.
I especially like the policies where your account is locked for something like 30 minutes on N bad password attempts. I like trying to guess what the boss's password is right before a high-level critical presentation. For some reason administrator account doesn't ever get locked though; that's too bad huh?
Yeah your completely correct as we all now that anyone that writes any good viruses has a good EULA protecting it from reverse engineering. Social engineering usually doesn't encompass the EULA.
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...in primarily Internet Explorer.
Yeah you can look at the rate of change in browser usage. The fastest growing market in terms of percentage growth is the Mozilla family - I dont know of any spyware getting through Mozilla yet.
Relocate the server to some small island in international waters or some country that doesn't give a Flying...ya know... about U.S. laws like North Korea.
There should be a universal standard for all application in the development community where the command --nosplash will disable splash screens.
The only good Splash Screen is a dead one.
How about having no splash screen as an option and let everyone else stare at the pretty picture for N seconds. I have so many windows open that I don't need to have something else occupying my desktop. To me, splash screens are annoying like browser popups - which I haven't seen in months thanks Mozzy that also has the alias & shortcut command option of nosplash.
Snort. No you didn't. It sounded good, no?
... (that) you can afford
Because the market is monopolized - the funds that could have been spent on the insurance is already allocated to a mandated one.
Oh yeah issue - my pay is indeed lower due to the premiums my employers has to pay. Lets take an extreme example and follow your lead - an employer is required to pay earthquake insurance if I live in California. As you said no one buys it so lets make the employer pay for it via federal regulation mandate. Lets keep it extreme by making the insurance cost 100k a year do you think that wouldn't come out of my check? I seriously doubt a company could pay 100k a year to an engineer and another 100k for insurance plus the other benefits. As goofy as it sounds to associate earthquake insurance with unemployment insurances should be as goofy sounding as making any insurance mandatory - I should be able to direct the funds for this insurance as I want. It's like GW trying to get part of the Social Security (that is yours) into privatized hands.
you have already agreed to work for them for your current salary
The market would balance itself in time. I should get a small raise, as the employer would be in competition from other employers. Remember companies want to make the employment decision not the other way around where the employees make the decisions.
No one will sell you private unemployment insurance
That's funnier than the parent. It funny how a misspelling works out like it does. I am lucky to have things like wikipedia working for me.
A guy using a camcorder while watching his TV
Someone plugging in the composite video to a capture card
Brute Force Attack
To stop me from buying your DVDs
Alginate the Movie Industry
So why don't you self-insure?
I would leap at the opportunity to self-insure myself. If my employer would compensate me for what they pay in insurance premiums to reflect that amount in my weekly check than I could. I would take what I pay in the insurance plus that weekly bonus and set aside additional funds on top of what I am already saving just as you described.
However, I called my payroll department and they said it wasn't voluntary payment - I am forced to pay it. So I in a monopolized system being forced to pay it running a higher risk in the regulated system.
If a firm has a big history of laying-off then federal involvement still wont help said firm, as the market will adjust for any company faster than any laws or reuglation can. In the event of a large scale depression, I am still at a higher risk under a mandated system rather than a self regulated one as again I am loosing income to an inadequate system.
These kinds of questions are not XOR questions
When the Federal Government steps it usually becomes an XOR case. Case in point - Unemployment Insurance. Early in the 190O's or so, private insurances were just starting to sell Unemployment Insurance - you know what happened later the federal government enacted the "Deal" which incorporated benefits for being laid off. Now lets fast forward 50-60 years to today. I would prefer to have private Unemployment Insurances as I am in the software world, which is very unstable. I would be willing to buy insurance from a private company for several hindered dollars a week if anyone would sell it. But guess what - there isn't a market because the federal government mandated Unemployment insurance already. This is a reader's digest version so go read the detailed history if you really want to.
So yes, federal involvement usually becomes an XOR problem.
ceasing to give federal funding for new stem cell lines" is pretty darn close to, in practicality, to outlawing stem cell research.
I didn't realize that the US taxed the citizens in South Korea or does your point have a few that holes that need filling?
Ok George Bush didn't outlaw Steam Cell Research; He ceased giving federal funding for new steam cell lines. And remember he was the first president to start giving money to this kind of research. At least read his statment first and then search google to get the facts
Even after that before you start bashing, ask who should be in charge of developing medicine - the government or industry?
As preposterous as the comic book debacle seems it is true. I saw the story on the history channel and one the targets was Mad Comic books aka Mad *Magazine*. See to get around the issue, the owners ceased calling it a comic book and named it called it a magazine as defined by that days statutes.
Don't call it crazy because look at the year 1954 and subtract just a few years - you'll find a time where the US legislate Prohibition into law. Crazy things happen when bounds aren't kept within check.
Your correct but this reminds me of the Registration backlash against TurboTax 2002. TurboTax lost market share due to having to contact the TurboTax server to get authentication for the tax product. People know that software companies fade over the years and to have something so important tied to a company that may not be there one day turned many customers off to the product. Many sought alternative ETax solutions. And as any license issue, Money talks louder than the Pen.
Now am I expecting people to associate the longevity of a game with the required longevity of tax returns? Of course not but I was thinking about purchasing HL2 but I think I'll pass until the dust settles instead of the risk/hassle of the validation scheme.
I rank Pivot Tables about #1 in usefullness. Followed by autofilter, Vlookup, conditional Formating and regular old little VBS scripts. What are some of the higher features you guys use?
Lets turn scenario in a way that benefits you:
You're not really looking at anything useful while you're using the restroom - why not let some company come in and install ads there?
Why not let the ads run on the TV while going for refreshment...
And when you're lying in bed, getting ready to go to sleep (or just waking up), there's a perfect blank space on your ceiling for some more ads.
Lets back load all adds from TIVO to certain hours of the day. My Tivo is never turned off but I turn off the TV and sleep. This is an optimal time for all commercials to run. Let the Tivo unit run commercials like a screen saver.
And if you're taking a walk in the woods, hey, you've seen one tree, you've seen 'em all, right? Ads!
Hmm I'm not sure where your going with this but if it's your land do with it as you legally please.
Just because a space is empty does NOT mean it's OK to put ads there.
Like I said try to twist everything to benefit you.
Tivo should be careful. As I imagine more people will become interested in messing with the software in TIVO as it does run Linux. Example, on the major Tivo boards, they don't talk about subscription stealing because Tivo threatened legal litigation over such discussion - fair enough. But if Tivo Corp goes too far than there will be a backlash and people will go just as far. People would (and some do) install a larger drive, hack the advertisement feature, re-add 30 second skip and while messing with it mid as well get a free subscription to boot.
I don't really want to see Tivo go down the tubes but I can imagine that the development community would pick up the charred remnants and actually produce a better product.
Maybe Disney will release the ray tracing to povray in a sort-of-like-way of distributed community rendering. Sort of like the reverse of what we would like to see in Star wars 7+.
This is a double-edged sword. It seems that the issue is the DVD players right? Well the people producing the DVD is stuffing the commercial on them. The market can't seem to be able to adjust to the advertisements because of people like me. I rip out the commercials and watch them on any player with intrusion. The Hardware manufactures are forced to have certain "features" installed on their software of the consortiums won't give them a license. Huh tough isn't it.
Now the money issue and the sword: Ok so we have determined that the hardware manufactures are only partially responsible for the situation. Now the producer of the DVD thinks that advertisement = revenue. What is the producer to do when revenues fall? Advertise - I see no end to the problem. More regulation wont help as if you start sending your customer to jail than which will further reduce your income base.
Your TiVo doesn't automatically skip commercials
My Replay-TV does. It has a flag that automagically skips commercials. Recently, replay was forced to remove that future due to legal threats. However, the code was left in the machines and you can modify a flag to automatically skip the commercials with a small code modification.
of the "original content"
Hmmm, this dosn't sound good. You know all those freaking commerical up front on say Disney DVDs. I rip about 30 minuts of that crap out so if the kiddies want to watch something, all I have to do is put in the cd and walk away - it autoplays the movies instead of the watching 30 minutes+ of commericals and then hitting play (like that isn't what I wanted to do in the first place).
I rip that stuff out and backup the DVDs to another DVD for this reason plus it child-proofs the orignal.
Yeah its quite funny. I made a bunch of mistakes not really worried about it just to see how many interation it would go through. Now if the guys talking about VB would produce an example; it would set an example of wiki power.
Robert McHenry asked "how would they recognize it once they had (Shakespeare)"
Simple. For each Shakespeare literature there would be another million monkeys reading and discussing the article. Thus you have a million writing monkeys and you would have maybe a million million reading monkeys; thus, the noise from the million million monkeys during discussion would drive the million monkeys.
foreach $monkeys(keys {%Shakespeare})
{
print "You\'ve got Shakespeare" if %shakespeare{$monkeys} = $It;
}
See the infinite monkey rule isn't good to apply as that rule doesn't facilitate feedback from the system.
Rest assured that unless some one finds a mathematical back door that the algorithms approaching 1024bits will not be the weakest link in the security of your data (at least with hardware today). Just have a look at the key space in Distributed's RC5-72 vs. RC5-64. The key space for RC5-72 is astronomically higher than RC5-64.
Usually, the weakest link will be the user using short keys or the user using the same password on a weaker system.
I especially like the policies where your account is locked for something like 30 minutes on N bad password attempts. I like trying to guess what the boss's password is right before a high-level critical presentation. For some reason administrator account doesn't ever get locked though; that's too bad huh?
Yeah your completely correct as we all now that anyone that writes any good viruses has a good EULA protecting it from reverse engineering. Social engineering usually doesn't encompass the EULA.