I can think of a very good excuse: getting people used to soldiers in the street. They will need those soldiers when they ask for your papers. They need them when the TSA will be at bus stops. At the toll booth. At your Little League Baseball Game.
All for your protection (and the kids).
Now be a good citizen and consume. Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
And the reason is not because you are the most powerful nation in the world. The reason is because nobody wants to. Nobody cares or is interested in attacking as long as you leave the others alone. (Hint: you don't.)
We force the customer to use secure passwords, and to change them frequently.
Frequent changes will force them to write them down. Congratulations, you have just made it less secure. OTOH you can just claim you did what was needed and that what they do is THEIR problem, just like everybody else does.
Not factoring in human behavior in security is solving a social problem with a technical solution.
Let me simplify the law for you: If you are not a media company, you are guilty of piracy. If you are a large American company, you can just pay off and charge your customers more. In all other cases, you are screwed.
Sure, they do not see any advantage now. That does not mean they never will. And when they do (perhaps in 10 years) it will be too late to take away your data at that moment. They already have it.
They can drop it from the sky with a parachute and it will not break? What will they come up next?
Deployment of the parachute will be the biggest force. A skydyver will have 3-4G for a few seconds.. Military will got to about 8G.
Considering that the servers will most likely not running, I am sure that the average packing for shipment should be enough. Just see that there are no moving parts and you should be able to get a lot more durability.
My guess is that the real damage will happen when some person drops it from the table during installation, not when it comes down on a parachute.
A bright light, or just the light that is already available in most situations? e-ink readers do not always need an extra light, because you already have enough light from around you. Like with real paper.
Yes, I could see a market for this if prices are low enough. If prices for a large e-paper would be 100USD for 50", I would use them instead of paintings. (Not all of them) New images each day.
As I am willing to pay 100USD, I am sure there will be people to pay 1000USD and even more. Also others will have other uses for them.
As they are slow, they will not be TV replacements.
I remember how the first people in companies got into IT. CEO: We have gathered everybody here, because we are going to all have computers AND we will have dial-up connection to the internworldweb. It is the new rage, CEO: SO who owns his own computer? Group: ------ CEO: OK. Who knows how to write internworldweb? Some smuck: Isn't it Internet? CEO: Congratulations, you are now responsible for all the computer related stuff for the who company and its 50 offices around the world.
Reverse the role and get into what SHE likes to do. Just imagine that SHE posted a similar question on some forum. And have you even asked her? Yes, a good game is more entertaining then a good movie. But a good meal is even better.
If you want to trick your spouse into games and she does not like computer games, start with non-computer games as a stepping stone game. Scrabble or chess.
But first start talking to her and let her never know that YOU rather asked the question to complete strangers then talking to you. If she finds out, start thinking of visiting rights to your kids, because she might be wanting to leave you.
Talk to her. Or perhaps even more important: listen to her. She will tell you.
In Belgium they had some people rob money transport vehicles. So they put people on it with guns. This did not lower the amount of attacks, but it raised the severity of the attacks. i.e. shoot the guards before they were able to shoot back.
Look at it from another angle. Imagine you have a small restaurant. You manage it yourself. You cook and you serve. However very soon you decide that you can not do both, so you serve and hire a cook. Your first employee.
The business grows and very soon you have several people in service and several people in the kitchen. Then you expand even further and you notice you are doing so many things managing the restaurant and doing books and looking to buy food and drinks at the best price that you do not have the time to stand all the time in the restaurant. So you hire a maitre'd to do this for you.
So many people come over from far away that you extend it to a small hotel. You put a manager in there. Now you have basally two different businesses in your company. Hotel and restaurant. Sometimes they overlap. Breakfast for the hotel is an example. Sometimes they compete. e.g. a big company who needs the rooms, while people eating in the restaurant also want those rooms.
However you are so successful that you build out and build a similar place in the next city. And then the next state. Soon you have 100 Hotel/restaurants and you notice that you can save money if you buy out the small company that made towels, linen and curtains. So now you add something indirectly related to the company.
That linen is so wanted by people that you start selling it directly. That leads you into the market of home-decoration.
Now what you see is that you make a LOT of money with that last business, but the hotel business is not going well. So to make it more interesting, you start to buy hotels even faster, because that way you can deduct the profit and you do not need to pay as much taxes.
Then finally you stop working and you give the business to your two kids. One takes over the Hotel part. The other the home-decoration parts. So even if there are two bosses now, they will keep working together. One will be pouring the profits into the others company.
The fact that they might be doing business in different countries or different continents does not matter. Also this is an extremely simple example. What would more likely happen is that there would be a holding company of which they both own 50%. The holding company is owner of the two parts of the company.
This could even mean that the company is not directly owner of the hotels, but rather owns companies that are in different states or even countries that own the hotels. Then each hotel might be a different situation where some a owned, others only partly or not the ground or just leased. And perhaps they split up the hotel and restaurant in some places, due to the local laws.
But no matter how complex it becomes, it will be owned and managed by one group of people. In this case the brothers.
You can also look at it from a different angle. Look at each department in the company where you work as a different company. Split them up in larger groups. e.g. by director and those are the different countries. In the end it is the directors who decide.
So es, they have a LOT to say about the UK iteration, because they are the owners. What the exact relationship is and how strongly it is enforced will depend on a LOT of different things, including the temperament of the shareholders wife that morning.
I can not use any program as I am not allowed to install any program on my PC at work Also at work I am unable to select my logins. The company I am now at are not that bad, but I still have 8 different logins with different combinations of parts of my first and last name. For the passwords I am forced to change several of them every month. This means I have a lower quality then what I do at home. I also have 8 and 10 character passwords and I have passwords that I was not allowed to select myself and am unable to change, some I share with others.
So yes, the IT department can tell me each and every time that they increased the technical security. However they conveniently leave out the human of everything.
I do not care how secure a 26 random generated password is. The password is as weak as the weakest link and people write them down. This means that your weakest link is not the password. It is the human. I am sure that a 4 letter password that I remember is safer then ANY other password written on a post-it note taped to monitor.
The law doesn't imply 2-year warantee should come for free but that must be included in the front price of the product.
I used to work with a company for consume goods when the period went from 1 year to 2 years. We already sold an extended warranty for 3 years.
So what they did was just recalculate the price to include the expected loss of extended warranty sales. When I asked the CEO if he thought it was a burden to not be able to sell the amount of warranty he said no. The income would not change as prices would be adapted (no extra income, because of competition) but there would be less effort needed to those sales.
In the price increase the extra amount of devices that would come in were also calculated. I believe the increase in price was somewhere around 2-5% of the cost of the extended warranty.
Neat link to XKCD. However there is a serous flaw. If I were to put something in somebody elses garage and he knows it is not his, he is not allowed to sell it. At least not where I live. That would be theft.
He has to clearly state that he does not want it anymore in his garage and leave a reasonable time for me to collect it. Then when I do not respond, he could have it removed at my expense. But selling it? No way, that would be theft.
Even telling me he will sell it if I do not pick it up would be meaningless and against the law and it would be theft. This could then result in two cases. One of me not paying the costs. The other of him stealing my stuff.
You can not open up a space in the city, wait till cars park there and then sell the cars saying that it isn't a parking lot. Not even if you indicate that you will sell the cars and that it isn't a parking lot.
Just by misplacing your stuff does not mean you do not have ownership over it anymore. And that is a good thing, otherwise I would just dump all my toxic waste in your garden and then say that it is now yours.
The make things worse, the people who should put a stop to it don't. That is your government.They should be there for the people, by the people. They are not.
The reason is because anything that reeks of listening to the voters means some sort of socialism and obviously that is a bad idea.
I do not care that companies try it. I do care that they get away with it.
The phone sounds that disturb me are not coming from the phone. It is the people USING the phone. And most of the time this is not even the sound that disturb me. It is people who I am trying to have a conversation with, but they pick up their phone every 30 seconds and answer some message. Then when you wait till they are finished, they say: pleas go on, I am listening. In reality they answer each question with 'huh?'. Perhaps next time I should take out my phone, keep on talking and texting them that they are extremely rude.
Simple as that. Managers manage. Entrepreneurs are leaders. They lead. When you manage something, you basically want things as they are. When you lead, you want things as YOU like them to be.
Managers are often lousy leaders and leaders are often lousy managers.
You know what the defense will say? Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
The fault is that you somehow think you are entitled to watch it and that it is therefore ok to use a way around it.
I want to sleep with Megan Fox. I am willing to pay her or marry her. However Megan Fox has somehow excluded those options. There is a way around it. Kidnapping and rape.
Yes, over the top example. Yet just because you want something and you are willing to pay for it does not mean you have a right to get it. They have made it very clear what the limited terms are. If you are not willing (or able) to fulfill these terms, there will be no deal.
You were doing fine till the Yeah, probably part. You just assumed that people will not sign up because they saw the video. Completely ignoring the fact that the opposite will also be as probable. Some people will join your course because they saw your video.
The huge question is if there are more or less people that will subscribe after seeing the video? No matter what the outcome, now that your video is out and you know others will get out as well, you must adapt your business plan.
Instead of looking it as lost revenue, look at it as a profit center and even free advertisement.
You just concentrate on the few who will not take up your course because they saw the movie. Why not concentrate on the many who previously never heard of you and are now interested.
Sure, if your video shows how you keep kicking people in the groin to motivate them and that is the reason they do not want to join, then perhaps it is GOOD they were warned.
What if it is not a practical but a theoretical course in say perl or C++. I come to your course and take my own notes and you learn me everything you know. I now start my own course with YOUR knowledge. Would that be ok? What if I memorize your course and give it word by word? What if I videotape it? What if you videotape it? At what point does it become theft?
It is very had to argue and no matter where you draw the line, it will be discussable. The reason is that it is not really theft. It is copyright infringement and because it is different, it is treated different.
Just like there is a difference between murder and manslaughter, there is a difference between theft and copyright infringement.
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I can think of a very good excuse: getting people used to soldiers in the street. They will need those soldiers when they ask for your papers.
They need them when the TSA will be at bus stops. At the toll booth. At your Little League Baseball Game.
All for your protection (and the kids).
Now be a good citizen and consume. Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
And the reason is not because you are the most powerful nation in the world. The reason is because nobody wants to. Nobody cares or is interested in attacking as long as you leave the others alone. (Hint: you don't.)
Frequent changes will force them to write them down. Congratulations, you have just made it less secure.
OTOH you can just claim you did what was needed and that what they do is THEIR problem, just like everybody else does.
Not factoring in human behavior in security is solving a social problem with a technical solution.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Oh: and apparently you can fool enough people all the time.
Let me simplify the law for you:
If you are not a media company, you are guilty of piracy.
If you are a large American company, you can just pay off and charge your customers more.
In all other cases, you are screwed.
Sure, they do not see any advantage now. That does not mean they never will.
And when they do (perhaps in 10 years) it will be too late to take away your data at that moment. They already have it.
They can drop it from the sky with a parachute and it will not break? What will they come up next?
Deployment of the parachute will be the biggest force. A skydyver will have 3-4G for a few seconds.. Military will got to about 8G.
Considering that the servers will most likely not running, I am sure that the average packing for shipment should be enough. Just see that there are no moving parts and you should be able to get a lot more durability.
My guess is that the real damage will happen when some person drops it from the table during installation, not when it comes down on a parachute.
A bright light, or just the light that is already available in most situations?
e-ink readers do not always need an extra light, because you already have enough light from around you. Like with real paper.
Yes, I could see a market for this if prices are low enough. If prices for a large e-paper would be 100USD for 50", I would use them instead of paintings. (Not all of them) New images each day.
As I am willing to pay 100USD, I am sure there will be people to pay 1000USD and even more. Also others will have other uses for them.
As they are slow, they will not be TV replacements.
I remember how the first people in companies got into IT.
CEO: We have gathered everybody here, because we are going to all have computers AND we will have dial-up connection to the internworldweb. It is the new rage,
CEO: SO who owns his own computer?
Group: ------
CEO: OK. Who knows how to write internworldweb?
Some smuck: Isn't it Internet?
CEO: Congratulations, you are now responsible for all the computer related stuff for the who company and its 50 offices around the world.
For those who did not know what gerrymandering was. A movie that explains it in 5 minutes is right here
Perhaps not mine, but all the women I meet have a new phone number within 24 hours.
Reverse the role and get into what SHE likes to do. Just imagine that SHE posted a similar question on some forum. And have you even asked her?
Yes, a good game is more entertaining then a good movie. But a good meal is even better.
If you want to trick your spouse into games and she does not like computer games, start with non-computer games as a stepping stone game. Scrabble or chess.
But first start talking to her and let her never know that YOU rather asked the question to complete strangers then talking to you. If she finds out, start thinking of visiting rights to your kids, because she might be wanting to leave you.
Talk to her. Or perhaps even more important: listen to her. She will tell you.
In Belgium they had some people rob money transport vehicles. So they put people on it with guns. This did not lower the amount of attacks, but it raised the severity of the attacks. i.e. shoot the guards before they were able to shoot back.
Look at it from another angle.
Imagine you have a small restaurant. You manage it yourself. You cook and you serve. However very soon you decide that you can not do both, so you serve and hire a cook. Your first employee.
The business grows and very soon you have several people in service and several people in the kitchen. Then you expand even further and you notice you are doing so many things managing the restaurant and doing books and looking to buy food and drinks at the best price that you do not have the time to stand all the time in the restaurant. So you hire a maitre'd to do this for you.
So many people come over from far away that you extend it to a small hotel. You put a manager in there. Now you have basally two different businesses in your company. Hotel and restaurant. Sometimes they overlap. Breakfast for the hotel is an example. Sometimes they compete. e.g. a big company who needs the rooms, while people eating in the restaurant also want those rooms.
However you are so successful that you build out and build a similar place in the next city. And then the next state. Soon you have 100 Hotel/restaurants and you notice that you can save money if you buy out the small company that made towels, linen and curtains. So now you add something indirectly related to the company.
That linen is so wanted by people that you start selling it directly. That leads you into the market of home-decoration.
Now what you see is that you make a LOT of money with that last business, but the hotel business is not going well. So to make it more interesting, you start to buy hotels even faster, because that way you can deduct the profit and you do not need to pay as much taxes.
Then finally you stop working and you give the business to your two kids. One takes over the Hotel part. The other the home-decoration parts. So even if there are two bosses now, they will keep working together. One will be pouring the profits into the others company.
The fact that they might be doing business in different countries or different continents does not matter. Also this is an extremely simple example. What would more likely happen is that there would be a holding company of which they both own 50%. The holding company is owner of the two parts of the company.
This could even mean that the company is not directly owner of the hotels, but rather owns companies that are in different states or even countries that own the hotels. Then each hotel might be a different situation where some a owned, others only partly or not the ground or just leased. And perhaps they split up the hotel and restaurant in some places, due to the local laws.
But no matter how complex it becomes, it will be owned and managed by one group of people. In this case the brothers.
You can also look at it from a different angle. Look at each department in the company where you work as a different company. Split them up in larger groups. e.g. by director and those are the different countries. In the end it is the directors who decide.
So es, they have a LOT to say about the UK iteration, because they are the owners. What the exact relationship is and how strongly it is enforced will depend on a LOT of different things, including the temperament of the shareholders wife that morning.
I can not use any program as I am not allowed to install any program on my PC at work
Also at work I am unable to select my logins. The company I am now at are not that bad, but I still have 8 different logins with different combinations of parts of my first and last name.
For the passwords I am forced to change several of them every month. This means I have a lower quality then what I do at home. I also have 8 and 10 character passwords and I have passwords that I was not allowed to select myself and am unable to change, some I share with others.
So yes, the IT department can tell me each and every time that they increased the technical security. However they conveniently leave out the human of everything.
I do not care how secure a 26 random generated password is. The password is as weak as the weakest link and people write them down. This means that your weakest link is not the password. It is the human. I am sure that a 4 letter password that I remember is safer then ANY other password written on a post-it note taped to monitor.
I used to work with a company for consume goods when the period went from 1 year to 2 years. We already sold an extended warranty for 3 years.
So what they did was just recalculate the price to include the expected loss of extended warranty sales. When I asked the CEO if he thought it was a burden to not be able to sell the amount of warranty he said no. The income would not change as prices would be adapted (no extra income, because of competition) but there would be less effort needed to those sales.
In the price increase the extra amount of devices that would come in were also calculated. I believe the increase in price was somewhere around 2-5% of the cost of the extended warranty.
Neat link to XKCD. However there is a serous flaw. If I were to put something in somebody elses garage and he knows it is not his, he is not allowed to sell it. At least not where I live. That would be theft.
He has to clearly state that he does not want it anymore in his garage and leave a reasonable time for me to collect it. Then when I do not respond, he could have it removed at my expense. But selling it? No way, that would be theft.
Even telling me he will sell it if I do not pick it up would be meaningless and against the law and it would be theft.
This could then result in two cases. One of me not paying the costs. The other of him stealing my stuff.
You can not open up a space in the city, wait till cars park there and then sell the cars saying that it isn't a parking lot. Not even if you indicate that you will sell the cars and that it isn't a parking lot.
Just by misplacing your stuff does not mean you do not have ownership over it anymore. And that is a good thing, otherwise I would just dump all my toxic waste in your garden and then say that it is now yours.
The make things worse, the people who should put a stop to it don't.
That is your government.They should be there for the people, by the people. They are not.
The reason is because anything that reeks of listening to the voters means some sort of socialism and obviously that is a bad idea.
I do not care that companies try it. I do care that they get away with it.
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TINSTAAFL. News at 11.
The phone sounds that disturb me are not coming from the phone. It is the people USING the phone.
And most of the time this is not even the sound that disturb me.
It is people who I am trying to have a conversation with, but they pick up their phone every 30 seconds and answer some message.
Then when you wait till they are finished, they say: pleas go on, I am listening. In reality they answer each question with 'huh?'.
Perhaps next time I should take out my phone, keep on talking and texting them that they are extremely rude.
It is you basic solving of a social problem by a technical solution.
Simple as that. Managers manage. Entrepreneurs are leaders. They lead. When you manage something, you basically want things as they are. When you lead, you want things as YOU like them to be.
Managers are often lousy leaders and leaders are often lousy managers.
Exceptions do exist.
You know what the defense will say?
Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.
We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
Or something similar.
The fault is that you somehow think you are entitled to watch it and that it is therefore ok to use a way around it.
I want to sleep with Megan Fox. I am willing to pay her or marry her. However Megan Fox has somehow excluded those options. There is a way around it. Kidnapping and rape.
Yes, over the top example. Yet just because you want something and you are willing to pay for it does not mean you have a right to get it. They have made it very clear what the limited terms are. If you are not willing (or able) to fulfill these terms, there will be no deal.
There is another option. Not to watch.
You were doing fine till the Yeah, probably part. You just assumed that people will not sign up because they saw the video. Completely ignoring the fact that the opposite will also be as probable.
Some people will join your course because they saw your video.
The huge question is if there are more or less people that will subscribe after seeing the video? No matter what the outcome, now that your video is out and you know others will get out as well, you must adapt your business plan.
Instead of looking it as lost revenue, look at it as a profit center and even free advertisement.
You just concentrate on the few who will not take up your course because they saw the movie. Why not concentrate on the many who previously never heard of you and are now interested.
Sure, if your video shows how you keep kicking people in the groin to motivate them and that is the reason they do not want to join, then perhaps it is GOOD they were warned.
What if it is not a practical but a theoretical course in say perl or C++. I come to your course and take my own notes and you learn me everything you know. I now start my own course with YOUR knowledge. Would that be ok? What if I memorize your course and give it word by word? What if I videotape it? What if you videotape it?
At what point does it become theft?
It is very had to argue and no matter where you draw the line, it will be discussable. The reason is that it is not really theft. It is copyright infringement and because it is different, it is treated different.
Just like there is a difference between murder and manslaughter, there is a difference between theft and copyright infringement.