HP has a gov't services business that they sell their hardware + service through.
In order to win those contracts you have to know the people issuing the purchase contracts very well to even get a foot in the door. I believe they've got the Gov't contacts and certainly enough OEM manufacturers willing to take the business to move the units.
I know this is slashdot, but the summary and article don't go into enough detail to determine what's going on. (surprised?)
Furthermore, this important fact is buried in the article, "..as well as in snippets in FriendFinder advertisements on search engines and other third-party Web sites"
Which I interpreted as her fake profile was used for FriendFinder ads. That is, in principal, not right and legally puts FriendFinder in the wrong on this one despite a likely drive-by EULA.
The article also states that the judge sided with FriendFinder.com on a number of issues.
The second issue has the service provider clearly in the wrong as well. It would require some re-development to get in compliance which they should have done and then quietly settled out of court as best as possible.
This is hardly the end of Web Service providers as we know it.
The difference between the two devices is one is gaming HUGE income generator for Government. In order to keep the poor schmucks at the poker machines, they contribute to the scheme by certifying the devices. Voting infrastructure is all costs and the only people that benefit are the contractor and the representatives the contractor is paying.
You seem to have forgotten that government is supposed to be run more like a business.
I think it's because we, the people, don't believe our votes count anyway
Sadly, that is all most Americans think is required to maintain the Republic. (hint, it's not a democracy)
I really don't think our votes count. You get exactly what you put into your ~1 hour a year of effort. A government that is best-suited to work against your ideals. It's your fault. It's not some multi-headed hydra of wealth and political power running the show. They participate, you don't. Period.
Independents don't stand a chance Which shows your complete ignorance of how the U.S. Republic was designed. It's a two-party system!!! If you want multi-party elections try Italy and see how they are doing.
If people really believed their votes counted, they would be outraged. No! They would participate in their Republic by ridding their local municipality of electronic voting and the elected officials backing electronic voting. It's how the system works. No bloodshed. No violence.
1. How noisy it is in there with a running diesel engine nearby and plywood shell?
2. Is it tough enough go off-road?
Mifare isn't a "smart card"
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A couple of very important clarifications to make your claims more accurate.
1. In the smart card industry, Mifare isn't categorized as a smart card. A smart card typically has an operating system running on it so one can create their own on-card applications. The cards provide RSA crypto functions (low end have AES only) with a strong emphasis on secure storage measured in a few Kbytes. This is different than Mifare.
2. Mifare can be categorized as a single purpose card. It does a few things quickly and not secure as compared to a smart card. The primary application for MiFare is quick and cheap authentication and possibly value transfer measured in a dollar or two.
In theory the crack could be used to steal subway rides. How do you go about figuring out which systems are still on this card version??? And how much are you stealing? The bigger crack that's already been done is stealing gas with a dynamic PayPass. With both cracks no one is getting rich and the systems are not as compromised as the summary would have you believe.
Yes I did RTFA and like other posts in this discussion the stated numbers are pure fiction.
Look, if it is the case that it is 1%-2% of Walmart's sales, the fact remains that the media cartel is the only one capable of promoting artists on a national-super-walmart scale AND paying the promotional vig to maintain their real estate within Walmart.
For every one band that might have possibly been successful this way, there are 1,000 that got successful through big-budget creation and media cartel promotion and distribution.
I was old enough to be around when Minor Threat and the like was (literally) making their own records including gluing the jackets. There were at the time lots of bands doing the same thing. There's a few bands still selling records from that era, but just a few. When the RIAA finally found some tools to pass for punk rock bands, they applied the same amount of resources they would any other act.
My point being, media cartel music production is roughly analogous to a big commercial video game.
1. Where is walmart going to go for whatever content the media distribution cartel is pushing this week? Oh that's right! To the media cartel!
2. Could Walmart find a more profitable use for the CD shelves real estate? Not likely. The media cartel pays them well-enough. Don't forget the cartel members pick the artists they promote, so the cartel members not only provide over-priced media, but pre-packaged "CD of the Week" kind of promotion that Walmart would never want to get into.
I'm definitely not a lawyer, but it seems to me that common sense and fairness never actually enter into a legal argument. There's precedence and the lack thereof, but never "it's not fair."
If the supreme's sided with him it sets up wide ranging precedent for which I doubt any of the justice's want to stick their neck out.
They'll will put up one very simple road block. The EULA will forbid such tomfoolery. Sure whatever scheme they come up with will be cracked. But Microsoft wouldn't collect much in the way of revenue from an illegitimate customer anyway.
Instead of coming up with schemes to allow one to run an OS that fewer and fewer people can actually afford to run legitimately, how about switching to an OS that you can afford to run legitimately?
Except, maybe I'd like to cache the mother of all queries from my multi-terrabytes worth of DB data? I'm at least half serious. There are a number of viable scenarios where this could be great.
There must be a few more relevant applications. Pitch in!
I'm all for new ideas and getting them out there for people to test. It's one of the major benefits of open systems.
Audience 1: Unwashed masses In order to get the message out, you need to tailor your message to what they are willing to hear. And no, I don't think you need to calculate religiosity into the content as much as they may think. Yes, that should piss-off plenty of strict scientists, but the unwashed masses are not your first audience.
Audience 2: slashdot crowd Insert pithy comment here about living in basements and reading comic books while creating turing aware nano-scale machines.
Audience 3:....
I understand the concern though. Because what typically happens is the sloppy manipulative communication used to grow the audience for scientific content washes over into the other audiences and ultimately into the research communication.
I don't think communication style is science's problem though. I think ignoring scientific principal in favor of some regional religiosity is a global phenomena at this point. Something like a post-modern dark ages. It's a crazy idea.
It's possible that Microsoft could have a better tool for the job. They don't for 90% of end-users, but maybe this is one of those corner-cases where they do?
That's why I think the problem is in OOo's user interface, not on its internal table support.
Which is why the person who tackles the issue will have some complicated coding to do. It may be more gui-fied coding, but complicated nonetheless.
The comments were not meant to be offensive. I like everyone else, run into GUI implementations that don't work well for me and yet others love. We all run into it sometime.
If they had an advertising budget to shout like Apple does AND Microsoft coordinated market activities with them, then I'd say they have a 50/50 chance.
I may be the only one who has dealt with Microsoft when they promise a vendor big things in order to get a Microsoft-reliant product to market, then mysteriously all of the promises evaporate.
What makes matters worse, is Microsoft's OEM OS business will screw new device makers every time. You bet Microsoft will choose the probable volume of the EEPC versus this device developer. New device makers have to go to the OEM's to get their design produced anyway.
Today's lesson: choosing Microsoft products for your start-up company's new-fangled device is baaaad business. If you have success with another OS first, revisit a Microsoft configuration.
stop handling menu and dialog font spacing and anti-aliasing
Except the problem with letting the WM handle anti-aliasing is they maintain their own gui toolkit so they minimize dealing with WM bugs and quirks. Sure, it sounds like a big deal to maintain a gui, but the time spent doing that may be shorter than debugging WM issues. Mozilla maintains their own gui for the same reason.
My 2nd hope is for OOo 3 to stop using Java for the wizards. Or for anything really. Well, now that's just not going to happen considering it's Sun's project.
3rd hope is for OOo 3 to finally make tables creation and editing in Write as easy While my Wife and I have no issues with tables, maybe it's just not intuitive for you. It happens all the time. Maybe shelling out the dough for an MSOffice license is what you should do rather than complain about something you got for free?
I'm just using your ridiculous post to make the following points:
From a social health perspective, the social costs of addicts using the internet as their drug of choice are unknown. This topic along with most addiction research deserve way more research dollars. For example, we know our social costs went down when alcohol addiction was identified and promoted as an illness. (more workers, more productivity)
If you knew anything about addiction therapy you would know that the therapy for a sex addict is much different than that of a bulemic(sp!), which is much different then that of an alcoholic. It stands to reason then, that "internet addiction" will eventually have different therapeutic methods that are unique to this category of addiction.
Not all of us live in our parent's basement any more. Take a shower. Get a girlfriend.
You have chosen to ignore your political responsibilities by having an unwavering faith that the government will do the right thing. Faith is defined as "belief that is not based on proof."
History has repeatedly shown that the healthiest governments are the ones with many diverse participants that can disagree and openly work for political change.
Since you most likely little more than vote, what happens when the Federal Government wants to tax your cable bill 20% to assist the telco's and cable companies? Your opposition is duly noted and you are now under surveillance. Impossible right? Except history is full of exactly that kind of scenario.
I don't know how many *clients* support TLS, but openser (voip server) definitely does.
It's just too late to reclaim/roll-back any privacy. The horses left the barn YEARS ago. 10+ years anyway. I'm not advocating the untenable position of "I've got nothing to hide, so it's okay." This is just standard operating procedure at this point.
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HP has a gov't services business that they sell their hardware + service through.
In order to win those contracts you have to know the people issuing the purchase contracts very well to even get a foot in the door. I believe they've got the Gov't contacts and certainly enough OEM manufacturers willing to take the business to move the units.
I know this is slashdot, but the summary and article don't go into enough detail to determine what's going on. (surprised?)
Furthermore, this important fact is buried in the article, "..as well as in snippets in FriendFinder advertisements on search engines and other third-party Web sites"
Which I interpreted as her fake profile was used for FriendFinder ads. That is, in principal, not right and legally puts FriendFinder in the wrong on this one despite a likely drive-by EULA.
The article also states that the judge sided with FriendFinder.com on a number of issues.
The second issue has the service provider clearly in the wrong as well. It would require some re-development to get in compliance which they should have done and then quietly settled out of court as best as possible.
This is hardly the end of Web Service providers as we know it.
The minority can't do anything
And there's your excuse for you and the ~4 moderators let sleeping dogs lie.
It's partially your fault for not participating. Own up and get involved in the voting process.
Or, maybe you'll have another excuse for doing nothing.
Nope.
The difference between the two devices is one is gaming HUGE income generator for Government. In order to keep the poor schmucks at the poker machines, they contribute to the scheme by certifying the devices. Voting infrastructure is all costs and the only people that benefit are the contractor and the representatives the contractor is paying.
You seem to have forgotten that government is supposed to be run more like a business.
I think it's because we, the people, don't believe our votes count anyway
Sadly, that is all most Americans think is required to maintain the Republic. (hint, it's not a democracy)
I really don't think our votes count.
You get exactly what you put into your ~1 hour a year of effort. A government that is best-suited to work against your ideals. It's your fault. It's not some multi-headed hydra of wealth and political power running the show. They participate, you don't. Period.
Independents don't stand a chance
Which shows your complete ignorance of how the U.S. Republic was designed. It's a two-party system!!! If you want multi-party elections try Italy and see how they are doing.
If people really believed their votes counted, they would be outraged.
No! They would participate in their Republic by ridding their local municipality of electronic voting and the elected officials backing electronic voting. It's how the system works. No bloodshed. No violence.
1. How noisy it is in there with a running diesel engine nearby and plywood shell?
2. Is it tough enough go off-road?
A couple of very important clarifications to make your claims more accurate.
1. In the smart card industry, Mifare isn't categorized as a smart card. A smart card typically has an operating system running on it so one can create their own on-card applications. The cards provide RSA crypto functions (low end have AES only) with a strong emphasis on secure storage measured in a few Kbytes. This is different than Mifare.
2. Mifare can be categorized as a single purpose card. It does a few things quickly and not secure as compared to a smart card. The primary application for MiFare is quick and cheap authentication and possibly value transfer measured in a dollar or two.
In theory the crack could be used to steal subway rides. How do you go about figuring out which systems are still on this card version??? And how much are you stealing? The bigger crack that's already been done is stealing gas with a dynamic PayPass. With both cracks no one is getting rich and the systems are not as compromised as the summary would have you believe.
This is a civil matter. There is no overwhelming amount of evidence required.
The RIAA can still paint the defendants as Anarchist wife-beating child-hating petty thieves and win the case.
This is the only post based on facts regarding color in the entire discussion.
Yes I did RTFA and like other posts in this discussion the stated numbers are pure fiction.
Look, if it is the case that it is 1%-2% of Walmart's sales, the fact remains that the media cartel is the only one capable of promoting artists on a national-super-walmart scale AND paying the promotional vig to maintain their real estate within Walmart.
For every one band that might have possibly been successful this way, there are 1,000 that got successful through big-budget creation and media cartel promotion and distribution.
I was old enough to be around when Minor Threat and the like was (literally) making their own records including gluing the jackets. There were at the time lots of bands doing the same thing. There's a few bands still selling records from that era, but just a few. When the RIAA finally found some tools to pass for punk rock bands, they applied the same amount of resources they would any other act.
My point being, media cartel music production is roughly analogous to a big commercial video game.
1. Where is walmart going to go for whatever content the media distribution cartel is pushing this week? Oh that's right! To the media cartel!
2. Could Walmart find a more profitable use for the CD shelves real estate? Not likely. The media cartel pays them well-enough. Don't forget the cartel members pick the artists they promote, so the cartel members not only provide over-priced media, but pre-packaged "CD of the Week" kind of promotion that Walmart would never want to get into.
I'm definitely not a lawyer, but it seems to me that common sense and fairness never actually enter into a legal argument. There's precedence and the lack thereof, but never "it's not fair."
If the supreme's sided with him it sets up wide ranging precedent for which I doubt any of the justice's want to stick their neck out.
They'll will put up one very simple road block. The EULA will forbid such tomfoolery. Sure whatever scheme they come up with will be cracked. But Microsoft wouldn't collect much in the way of revenue from an illegitimate customer anyway.
Instead of coming up with schemes to allow one to run an OS that fewer and fewer people can actually afford to run legitimately, how about switching to an OS that you can afford to run legitimately?
Except, maybe I'd like to cache the mother of all queries from my multi-terrabytes worth of DB data? I'm at least half serious. There are a number of viable scenarios where this could be great.
There must be a few more relevant applications. Pitch in!
I'm all for new ideas and getting them out there for people to test. It's one of the major benefits of open systems.
Audience 1: Unwashed masses
....
In order to get the message out, you need to tailor your message to what they are willing to hear. And no, I don't think you need to calculate religiosity into the content as much as they may think. Yes, that should piss-off plenty of strict scientists, but the unwashed masses are not your first audience.
Audience 2: slashdot crowd
Insert pithy comment here about living in basements and reading comic books while creating turing aware nano-scale machines.
Audience 3:
I understand the concern though. Because what typically happens is the sloppy manipulative communication used to grow the audience for scientific content washes over into the other audiences and ultimately into the research communication.
I don't think communication style is science's problem though. I think ignoring scientific principal in favor of some regional religiosity is a global phenomena at this point. Something like a post-modern dark ages. It's a crazy idea.
It's possible that Microsoft could have a better tool for the job. They don't for 90% of end-users, but maybe this is one of those corner-cases where they do?
That's why I think the problem is in OOo's user interface, not on its internal table support.
Which is why the person who tackles the issue will have some complicated coding to do. It may be more gui-fied coding, but complicated nonetheless.
The comments were not meant to be offensive. I like everyone else, run into GUI implementations that don't work well for me and yet others love. We all run into it sometime.
go file a bug with as much useful feedback as you can provide
I agree. You know as well as I do the Free Riders with complaints who don't submit feedback out there are a legion unto themselves.
No offense taken. What part of "It happens all the time" suggests I'm offended?
If they had an advertising budget to shout like Apple does AND Microsoft coordinated market activities with them, then I'd say they have a 50/50 chance.
I may be the only one who has dealt with Microsoft when they promise a vendor big things in order to get a Microsoft-reliant product to market, then mysteriously all of the promises evaporate.
What makes matters worse, is Microsoft's OEM OS business will screw new device makers every time. You bet Microsoft will choose the probable volume of the EEPC versus this device developer. New device makers have to go to the OEM's to get their design produced anyway.
Today's lesson: choosing Microsoft products for your start-up company's new-fangled device is baaaad business. If you have success with another OS first, revisit a Microsoft configuration.
Homage in this usage means, "allegiance or respect for one's feudal lord."
I want the minutes back I wasted on that story.
stop handling menu and dialog font spacing and anti-aliasing
Except the problem with letting the WM handle anti-aliasing is they maintain their own gui toolkit so they minimize dealing with WM bugs and quirks. Sure, it sounds like a big deal to maintain a gui, but the time spent doing that may be shorter than debugging WM issues. Mozilla maintains their own gui for the same reason.
My 2nd hope is for OOo 3 to stop using Java for the wizards. Or for anything really.
Well, now that's just not going to happen considering it's Sun's project.
3rd hope is for OOo 3 to finally make tables creation and editing in Write as easy
While my Wife and I have no issues with tables, maybe it's just not intuitive for you. It happens all the time. Maybe shelling out the dough for an MSOffice license is what you should do rather than complain about something you got for free?
I'm just using your ridiculous post to make the following points:
From a social health perspective, the social costs of addicts using the internet as their drug of choice are unknown. This topic along with most addiction research deserve way more research dollars. For example, we know our social costs went down when alcohol addiction was identified and promoted as an illness. (more workers, more productivity)
If you knew anything about addiction therapy you would know that the therapy for a sex addict is much different than that of a bulemic(sp!), which is much different then that of an alcoholic. It stands to reason then, that "internet addiction" will eventually have different therapeutic methods that are unique to this category of addiction.
Not all of us live in our parent's basement any more. Take a shower. Get a girlfriend.
You have chosen to ignore your political responsibilities by having an unwavering faith that the government will do the right thing. Faith is defined as "belief that is not based on proof."
History has repeatedly shown that the healthiest governments are the ones with many diverse participants that can disagree and openly work for political change.
Since you most likely little more than vote, what happens when the Federal Government wants to tax your cable bill 20% to assist the telco's and cable companies? Your opposition is duly noted and you are now under surveillance. Impossible right? Except history is full of exactly that kind of scenario.
I don't know how many *clients* support TLS, but openser (voip server) definitely does.
It's just too late to reclaim/roll-back any privacy. The horses left the barn YEARS ago. 10+ years anyway. I'm not advocating the untenable position of "I've got nothing to hide, so it's okay." This is just standard operating procedure at this point.