...THEN they can bitch and moan about them being out of date.
No government organization should be using a free, third party map and satellite provider for maps and photos they make big decisions from, anyway. We have the US Geological Survey, as well as offices with and without acknowledged acronyms, to generate all the maps and photos Congress needs.
It's a bit chatty in places - and this sort of work will always be subjective - but it reads to me as a good professional briefing by an efficient PR outfit.
I totally agree. My first thought, before even finishing reading the memo, was, dang, how do I get these people to work for me?
Makes me wonder whether the "leak" was accidental, or they were getting free publicity:) Speaking of, if you like this stuff, you should watch the BBC sitcom Absolute Power.
If you have a vendor that sets a price floor, in an open market for a commodity you will have other vendors who will pop up and make the same item, with "no" floor. That first vendor will find himself priced out of the market in the long term. So pretty much, the only market where a floor can survive when imposed internally is a luxury market, where goods are highly differentiated.
Of course, if luxury item vendors enact price floors, that creates a black market for cheaper knockoffs...
That's too big an OS. Or at least too big an interface.
This should be obvious. Does it really make sense to load a huge OS like Windows, with all its carryover behaviors for backwards compatibility, for something that really should have its own methodology?
Nobody is forcing people to buy music from iTunes. In fact, there's a lot of music you can't get on iTunes, and must buy elsewhere. iPods play MP3s great, too. People are buying there by choice.
If a person thinks they are happy, who cares? Are you going to try and prove to a happy person that are, in fact, just as angry and boring as you are? What's the point? Leave them in their happiness.
agreed:
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -- John Stuart Mill
Contentment is not perfect happiness, perhaps, but if you have to be told otherwise, reminded what you are missing, how can you tell? I don't think you can sustain high levels of happiness, because I think it's comes from a delta of progressing situations, but contentment is the affinity for minimal delta from current situation.
1) these are companies that can't get listed on regular exchanges. Either they're too new or small to afford the fees, or they don't have the financials that the exchanges require. 2) this is a big one: the market makers may not report every single transaction and every price change, or every minute or hour. You're used to seeing the market change, and having updated info pretty quickly after a trade. "Real time level 2 quotes" and all that. Guess what? These are thinly traded. Some report daily. Some report every couple of days. Some report weekly. Unless you check, you don't know. If you see stock trading for 5 cents one week and 25 cents the next week, you don't know if it really is going up, or if it went to 10 dollars in the middle of the week, and all the pumpers jumped, and 25 cents is the reported figure on the way back down. You just don't know.
Go here for some more information. Really. Don't think about these without being sure you know the risks.
(Also, I have to say, while the information I gave in #2 was deemed correct when I worked for a broker, I was never a licensed broker myself. So don't take my word for it still being completely true. I see that a company called pinksheets.com offers what they say are real time quotes now for dealers, but they're neither a NASD broker-dealer nor SEC-registered, so... who knows what that means? Ask your broker and do your own research. Be sure and ask your broker what it means when you try to sell "at market" on a pink sheet, too, if you're assuming you're going to be able to get out quickly:) )
I had to sign one of these for Doubleclick. They told me it was basically unenforceable and that a number of employees were working there in violation of their previous non-compete agreements.
Which begs the question: why have you sign it? Good thing you held out for more money, at least.
Propose management to relocate the retirement home to a nicer place with, for example, windows and sunlight. Jesus man, who the hell make older folks live in a former fallout shelter? It's really sad. Tell me where it is so I know never to send my mother there...
What, you weren't planning on visiting the facility to which you'll send your mother, first?:)
Will the revenue stay in the communities where the items are purchased, or go into a larger, federal pool? There are arguments for each. And if I'm being taxed a recycling fee up front, then I shouldn't have to pay anyone when it comes time to dump my old hardware, right? I think my city's homeowner hazardous waste recycling center already accepts, for free, consumer electronics/computers from individuals, as long as they have proof of residency, anyway.
If I ran an engineering program, It wouldn't be a matter of selecting the people with the best grades, or even the best test scores. Plenty of people will work hard or have raw intelligence, and if I have a good program, they will queue for it. I'd focus on what people can show me they can do already, with what they have. I'd want to see applicants building their own robots, remote controlled craft of all sorts, a solar greenhouse, a water filtration system perhaps, because these indicate to me an active mind interested in creative problem solving, and the initiative to get things done.
Remember, engineering used to be a term synonymous with "professional genius." Have you done much on your own initiative? And if not, why not? Do you not have questions you want answered? Engineering may be something you get bored with, if you don't have that drive, and that drive should be obvious by now. I'll take a grimy Edison or a von Braun over a valedictorian with a complete modern science and math education, but no fire.
An Edison can learn the prerequisites on demand. A feckless valedictorian can't learn to be an Edison. Which are you? That's how you get in. And if you somehow slip through anyway, you'll shine at whatever school you go to, and you won't care, as long as you have toys to play with, problems to solve.
I don't quite get how he was getting the billing zip codes, which are usually required, or anything else.
Certain stores have started asking for zip codes for AmEx cards, to 'help protect you.' That's Wal-Mart, Target, many gas stations, etc. Other stores, like Radio Shack, Micro Center, and Fry's, try to create buyer profiles of customers, so they will ask for your name and information when you buy stuff. Sometimes they claim it's mandatory for things like rebates.
Anyway, I'm sure most of us just give the zip code if asked. And we're used to salespeople looking at the backs of our cards, too, so someone can easily memorize the 3 or 4 digit number in the time it takes to pretend to look at the signature.
...it would require an extensive re-working of the current FairPlay system...
I think this may be the EU's point. Maybe of the people on the other side of the pond are starting to look at Apple's music "monopoly" like they viewed Microsoft's OS "monopoly" in the 1990s.
The reworking to get it technically able to rescind keys has nothing to do with opening it up. In fact it could also be an argument against it, when taken with remarks Jobs has made, about the contracts requiring quick fixes for any exploits of the system.
If they have to open it up to other vendors, someone out there is bound to have a faulty implementation that can be exploited to keep "free" music, and since it will be another vendor, they may not be able to force them to fix it in the necessary timeframe.
If anything, this looks like they want to shut down ALL downloaded music sales that are NOT DRMed. You try revoking an eMusic MP3, for example. Unless, of course, they only make iTMS adhere to this requirement.
As far as I can figure out, the only way to do this is to assign a subkey to each track you buy, under your master key, so that if you return it, the subkey can be revoked from your chain. This will also require that the chain be somewhere you can't edit, like in TPM somewhere, so you can't back it up and overwrite it later. And yes, it would require an extensive re-working of the current FairPlay system to do this.
that goes something like, if someone breaks a couple of windows, and nothing happens, they may break some more, or do other damage, because they see nobody's watching.
Thing is, as you get more people involved with WP, you have more eyes watching. As vandals find their attacks repeatedly and quickly erased, they move on. The watchers generally stay. Pride of ownership, and all that. So over time, you might end up with a system that has even less vandalism, especially as word of mouth spreads among the vandals that they are having no success.
If the trojan was targeted to something like a specific list of account holders, instead of wildly blasted around, that could indicate a different breach of security at the bank. In that case, the bank has a lot more cleaning up to do behind the scenes. I'm not saying that definitely happened, but I am given pause.
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I'm sure it will help clear up any lingering Kim Jong-Il-will towards the North Koreans by copyright violators.
...THEN they can bitch and moan about them being out of date.
No government organization should be using a free, third party map and satellite provider for maps and photos they make big decisions from, anyway.
We have the US Geological Survey, as well as offices with and without acknowledged acronyms, to generate all the maps and photos Congress needs.
On the dot, today, I learned that rates are going up for mail.
You obviously can't be bothered to read my history.
I totally agree. My first thought, before even finishing reading the memo, was, dang, how do I get these people to work for me?
Makes me wonder whether the "leak" was accidental, or they were getting free publicity
Speaking of, if you like this stuff, you should watch the BBC sitcom Absolute Power.
If you have a vendor that sets a price floor, in an open market for a commodity you will have other vendors who will pop up and make the same item, with "no" floor. That first vendor will find himself priced out of the market in the long term. So pretty much, the only market where a floor can survive when imposed internally is a luxury market, where goods are highly differentiated.
Of course, if luxury item vendors enact price floors, that creates a black market for cheaper knockoffs...
That's too big an OS. Or at least too big an interface.
This should be obvious. Does it really make sense to load a huge OS like Windows, with all its carryover behaviors for backwards compatibility, for something that really should have its own methodology?
Nobody is forcing people to buy music from iTunes.
In fact, there's a lot of music you can't get on iTunes, and must buy elsewhere.
iPods play MP3s great, too.
People are buying there by choice.
agreed:
Contentment is not perfect happiness, perhaps, but if you have to be told otherwise, reminded what you are missing, how can you tell?
I don't think you can sustain high levels of happiness, because I think it's comes from a delta of progressing situations, but contentment is the affinity for minimal delta from current situation.
1) these are companies that can't get listed on regular exchanges. Either they're too new or small to afford the fees, or they don't have the financials that the exchanges require.
:) )
2) this is a big one: the market makers may not report every single transaction and every price change, or every minute or hour. You're used to seeing the market change, and having updated info pretty quickly after a trade. "Real time level 2 quotes" and all that. Guess what? These are thinly traded. Some report daily. Some report every couple of days. Some report weekly. Unless you check, you don't know. If you see stock trading for 5 cents one week and 25 cents the next week, you don't know if it really is going up, or if it went to 10 dollars in the middle of the week, and all the pumpers jumped, and 25 cents is the reported figure on the way back down. You just don't know.
Go here for some more information. Really. Don't think about these without being sure you know the risks.
(Also, I have to say, while the information I gave in #2 was deemed correct when I worked for a broker, I was never a licensed broker myself. So don't take my word for it still being completely true. I see that a company called pinksheets.com offers what they say are real time quotes now for dealers, but they're neither a NASD broker-dealer nor SEC-registered, so... who knows what that means? Ask your broker and do your own research. Be sure and ask your broker what it means when you try to sell "at market" on a pink sheet, too, if you're assuming you're going to be able to get out quickly
Which begs the question: why have you sign it? Good thing you held out for more money, at least.
What, you weren't planning on visiting the facility to which you'll send your mother, first?
Will the revenue stay in the communities where the items are purchased, or go into a larger, federal pool? There are arguments for each.
And if I'm being taxed a recycling fee up front, then I shouldn't have to pay anyone when it comes time to dump my old hardware, right?
I think my city's homeowner hazardous waste recycling center already accepts, for free, consumer electronics/computers from individuals, as long as they have proof of residency, anyway.
If I ran an engineering program, It wouldn't be a matter of selecting the people with the best grades, or even the best test scores. Plenty of people will work hard or have raw intelligence, and if I have a good program, they will queue for it. I'd focus on what people can show me they can do already, with what they have. I'd want to see applicants building their own robots, remote controlled craft of all sorts, a solar greenhouse, a water filtration system perhaps, because these indicate to me an active mind interested in creative problem solving, and the initiative to get things done.
Remember, engineering used to be a term synonymous with "professional genius." Have you done much on your own initiative? And if not, why not? Do you not have questions you want answered? Engineering may be something you get bored with, if you don't have that drive, and that drive should be obvious by now. I'll take a grimy Edison or a von Braun over a valedictorian with a complete modern science and math education, but no fire.
An Edison can learn the prerequisites on demand. A feckless valedictorian can't learn to be an Edison. Which are you? That's how you get in. And if you somehow slip through anyway, you'll shine at whatever school you go to, and you won't care, as long as you have toys to play with, problems to solve.
Certain stores have started asking for zip codes for AmEx cards, to 'help protect you.' That's Wal-Mart, Target, many gas stations, etc. Other stores, like Radio Shack, Micro Center, and Fry's, try to create buyer profiles of customers, so they will ask for your name and information when you buy stuff. Sometimes they claim it's mandatory for things like rebates.
Anyway, I'm sure most of us just give the zip code if asked. And we're used to salespeople looking at the backs of our cards, too, so someone can easily memorize the 3 or 4 digit number in the time it takes to pretend to look at the signature.
The reworking to get it technically able to rescind keys has nothing to do with opening it up. In fact it could also be an argument against it, when taken with remarks Jobs has made, about the contracts requiring quick fixes for any exploits of the system.
If they have to open it up to other vendors, someone out there is bound to have a faulty implementation that can be exploited to keep "free" music, and since it will be another vendor, they may not be able to force them to fix it in the necessary timeframe.
If anything, this looks like they want to shut down ALL downloaded music sales that are NOT DRMed. You try revoking an eMusic MP3, for example. Unless, of course, they only make iTMS adhere to this requirement.
As far as I can figure out, the only way to do this is to assign a subkey to each track you buy, under your master key, so that if you return it, the subkey can be revoked from your chain. This will also require that the chain be somewhere you can't edit, like in TPM somewhere, so you can't back it up and overwrite it later. And yes, it would require an extensive re-working of the current FairPlay system to do this.
How does anyone, even with patriotism levels, identify who the enemy is?
that goes something like, if someone breaks a couple of windows, and nothing happens, they may break some more, or do other damage, because they see nobody's watching.
Thing is, as you get more people involved with WP, you have more eyes watching. As vandals find their attacks repeatedly and quickly erased, they move on. The watchers generally stay. Pride of ownership, and all that. So over time, you might end up with a system that has even less vandalism, especially as word of mouth spreads among the vandals that they are having no success.
like he's stood for anything before, besides making a buck? :)
What better use for astroturfing? :)
With TPM, I won't have the keys to at least one section of my own computer's hard drive. Trusted computing at its finest.
To paraphrase an old Sinclair Oil slogan, "there's a zeppelin in my tank!"
If the trojan was targeted to something like a specific list of account holders, instead of wildly blasted around, that could indicate a different breach of security at the bank. In that case, the bank has a lot more cleaning up to do behind the scenes. I'm not saying that definitely happened, but I am given pause.