Remember the Iranians piecing togther - by (mainly female, oh the irony),...well, that's what (er, who) the first computors were way back when, so I'd say at the time (1979-1980) that Iran was at late 1800's tech level compared to their enemies, er, us.
Besides, we didn't really make it hard for them, either. Thus came to be the cross-cut shredder and other such devices. At my work we have a secure Xerox machine, too (the output goes directly to the shredder). I don't think the shredding that Iron Mountain and others do with their trucks is all that secure, either. Someone getting the output from one of their trucks could do the same thing, given a big enough space and enough time and sufficient motivation. In fact, I do recall reading about someone who developed software to more or less automate the process via computer, as the computer can do all the flipping around and alignment of the pieces after they get scanned in...
And, let's not forget that the NSA probably is slurping up all the e-mails anyways, and certainly Google is probably doing some magic with/to those accounts as well to satisfy retention requirements or to keep themselves out of hot water down the road.
...Maybe they're in the middle of bum-fuck eastern Washington, far from Yakima, Tri-Cities, Wenatchee or Spokane? It looks flat on a map, but unless they're by Moses Lake, it's not really all that flat at all, so VHF TV signals aren't gonna work well at all.
Uh, actually, people DID care, and they DID receive more than the usual media attention than is afforded the positions they took over (of course, Clarence Thomas' was slightly controversial as well. Just ask Anita Hill, and Condoleeza Rice's thunder was lessened by Madeleine Albright being the first woman in general to be Sec. of State)...
He did say he was from a small school district in eastern Washington, which is largely rural (except perhaps Wenatchee, Ellensburg, Yakima, Spokane, Richland, Kennewick and Pasco). If it was a school in any one of those towns, chances are they've got the free cable TV feed and can probably set up TVs in some/most of the classrooms.
Will they show all the pomp and circumstance, or just Pres. Obama's speech and swearing-in?
It does if he's the FIRST one. He'll be the only first one. Just like it'll be a big day when the first woman is elected president (sorry, Hillary supporters, it won't/shouldn't be her, but if it's a choice between Sarah Palin and Hillary...well...lesser of two evils prevails... At least Hillary was clever enough to hide most of her blind ambition behind Bill's).
The first Apollo landing was big news. The 7th one wasn't.
Bernie Madoff allegedly stashing millions of dollars in checks in his desk (and who knows where he's stashed all sorts of $$$ in international accounts), getting ready to send it somewhere where the System can't touch it when all is said and done?
I would really argue that SCO Group should not be allowed to do this, as it is in essence allowing them to transfer assets out of the company so that they cannot be used to pay the company's legal obligations when all is said and done.
If you or I do it, say, to shelter/shed/disburse assets prior to a divorce settlement, bankruptcy or other judgment action (i.e., we attempt to shed assets after filing for bankruptcy), we get pilloried.
Which is too bad. Instead of busting people just for association, the counter-intellegence folks need to also be using Facebook, etc. to infiltrate Al Queso, etc., and get a better clue of what is going on, get deeper into their operations, and probably have even bigger impacts than busting a stupid cell here (which for all we know could have been intentionally set up by Al to smoke out what the Feds might be looking for...). Perhaps by setting up their own Al Queso recruiting-honeypot site? But, no. That takes too long, and is much harder to justify to the political someones as "doing something about it".
Maybe I've read too much Tom Clancy etc in the past, where the spooks and operatives doing the actual work aren't in it for the fame or political glory, where the right thing to do is use what the enemy is using against them to bring the whole damn thing down, not just a paper cut here, or a PR opportunity there, so some political dick-suckers can talk back to their constituents (or their "consulting" gigs on CNN) and say, "we're doing something about it, see?"
Best Buy probably just has the account number, but they then cross-reference that number with credit bureau information, and with an educated guess (i.e., last reported address), they send you the stuff.
Kind of makes a good long-term argument against product names that are either very unique (Kodak, Xerox) or too close to a functional description of the product, its functional domain, etc. Many of us in the US grew up (70's - 80's) taking our pictures to photo shops - little drive-through shacks, to have our pictures developed (or say "hi" to Chong). It was a clever hook by the Adobe folks, but look where it gets them now - it's too easily used as a "verb" and can turn into its own meme.
Another part of the problem is that English (at least, American english) is too flexible. Who knows what it would sound like if it had to be derived from Latin origins, or a squished-together katamari German word or abbreviation of it, etc?
But it just doesn't sound right to say, "I CGI'd the red-eye out with Photoshop".
Uh...no. Unless you count Medicare & Social Security as "welfare" programs. The actual welfare programs (WIC, food stamps) aren't even in the line to get into those two ballparks.
...manufacturers can simply increase their wholesale prices to very near the MSRP, making it essentially impossible to profit without selling above the manufacturer's suggested price....which is what the manufacturers should be doing in the first place.
MAPs are a minor assurance, from the factory, that when you hand over your money to buy their stock you're not going to end up with something worthless in your hands two weeks later because of some fly by night jerk who submarines the market to make a quick buck and leaves the existing sellers to clean up the mess (as if there aren't already enough market forces pushing against you)....but they do NOTHING to protect the retailer that the product they buy from the factory is not going to be suddenly replaced in two weeks by a new model that the factory is providing only to "preferred" retailers, perhaps with some kickbacks to allow those retailer also to profit while on paper selling it for a loss, and also underselling all those left selling the previous model, like you, who happen to be a competitor to one of the "preferred" retailers...
I actually think the MAP laws are a subtle dig at Wal-Mart...
...and then they should fall under franchise laws, at least in the US states...
You can purchase a nice shiny Nikon D700 DSLR from a US dealer, or you can get a cheaper one that's gray-market... and you'll never get Nikon USA to service it, period.
Well... I would argue that this camera in 3 years will be obsolete anyways, and it will be cheaper to simply buy the new version du juor or a used one off of eBay/Craigslist rather than get it "serviced" (where it may possibly be cheaper/easier for the manufacturer to send you back a refurbished unit, rather than fix the one you have and send it back to you...). Such is the consumer electronics market. And, yes, the D700 is a consumer electronics unit, albeit an expensive one (today).
There is a HUGE slippery slope there. Mr. CEO of company doesn't particularly like people? Well, then restrict selling of one's products to them. But now it's under the guise of "minimum acceptable price". Sorry, commerce is supposed to be blind.
Manufacturers should be able to chose who they are going to sell their product to wholesale.
But, from there, they should lose control over future sales... They've been paid their wholesale price, it's up to the retailers to sell it for what they can. If they don't like it, then they need to jack up their wholesale prices.
It is no different really than the homeowner trying to sell his house at $350K when comparable homes in the same area are selling for $250K. Any given product is worth only what people are willing to pay for it... But, wait...that's free market economics...
Yep, but you're assuming that the "man in the middle", the ISP, doesn't have any business interest in things other than shuffling bits back and forth and solely getting paid to do that at a decent profit. Some of the ISPs (cable companies and the ILEC telcos themselves providing some of these big fat dedicated pipes to the Googles), also have internal business units that they want to push forth at the expense of the rest of the world they allege to serve. They want users on THEIR networks to use THEIR search engines, THEIR media delivery services, etc., not Google/YouTube, FaceBook, etc. Why? Well, they're not symbiotic partners, they're parasites. They don't want to be merely infrastructure that facilitates the rest of the system. They want to BE the system, and think that they are. The world of "The Matrix" is a colossal wet dream for them.
it was reported on a radio station yesterday that a Portland-area nurse administrator was on the hook, oddly enough, for about $400K, having responded to one of those Nigerian e-mails...
Coincidence? I think not! Microsoft agents found someone to throw under the bus!
I'd want to see Steve Wozniak do it, but he definitely would need someone to run political interference and do the necessary head banking and arm twisting...
Dean Kamen? Hmm... no.
I know, how about Mr. Wolfram? Model government as a bunch of cellular automata..
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Remember the Iranians piecing togther - by (mainly female, oh the irony), ...well, that's what (er, who) the first computors were way back when, so I'd say at the time (1979-1980) that Iran was at late 1800's tech level compared to their enemies, er, us.
Besides, we didn't really make it hard for them, either. Thus came to be the cross-cut shredder and other such devices. At my work we have a secure Xerox machine, too (the output goes directly to the shredder). I don't think the shredding that Iron Mountain and others do with their trucks is all that secure, either. Someone getting the output from one of their trucks could do the same thing, given a big enough space and enough time and sufficient motivation. In fact, I do recall reading about someone who developed software to more or less automate the process via computer, as the computer can do all the flipping around and alignment of the pieces after they get scanned in...
And, let's not forget that the NSA probably is slurping up all the e-mails anyways, and certainly Google is probably doing some magic with/to those accounts as well to satisfy retention requirements or to keep themselves out of hot water down the road.
...Maybe they're in the middle of bum-fuck eastern Washington, far from Yakima, Tri-Cities, Wenatchee or Spokane? It looks flat on a map, but unless they're by Moses Lake, it's not really all that flat at all, so VHF TV signals aren't gonna work well at all.
Uh, actually, people DID care, and they DID receive more than the usual media attention than is afforded the positions they took over (of course, Clarence Thomas' was slightly controversial as well. Just ask Anita Hill, and Condoleeza Rice's thunder was lessened by Madeleine Albright being the first woman in general to be Sec. of State)...
He did say he was from a small school district in eastern Washington, which is largely rural (except perhaps Wenatchee, Ellensburg, Yakima, Spokane, Richland, Kennewick and Pasco). If it was a school in any one of those towns, chances are they've got the free cable TV feed and can probably set up TVs in some/most of the classrooms.
Will they show all the pomp and circumstance, or just Pres. Obama's speech and swearing-in?
Indoctrination? Yeah, whatever.
It does if he's the FIRST one. He'll be the only first one. Just like it'll be a big day when the first woman is elected president (sorry, Hillary supporters, it won't/shouldn't be her, but if it's a choice between Sarah Palin and Hillary...well...lesser of two evils prevails... At least Hillary was clever enough to hide most of her blind ambition behind Bill's).
The first Apollo landing was big news. The 7th one wasn't.
they did, when the servers were called "mainframes"...
h == planck's constant.
h-bar == h*pi, or something like that... (yes, it's still a constant, but...)
Bernie Madoff allegedly stashing millions of dollars in checks in his desk (and who knows where he's stashed all sorts of $$$ in international accounts), getting ready to send it somewhere where the System can't touch it when all is said and done?
I would really argue that SCO Group should not be allowed to do this, as it is in essence allowing them to transfer assets out of the company so that they cannot be used to pay the company's legal obligations when all is said and done.
If you or I do it, say, to shelter/shed/disburse assets prior to a divorce settlement, bankruptcy or other judgment action (i.e., we attempt to shed assets after filing for bankruptcy), we get pilloried.
Which is too bad. Instead of busting people just for association, the counter-intellegence folks need to also be using Facebook, etc. to infiltrate Al Queso, etc., and get a better clue of what is going on, get deeper into their operations, and probably have even bigger impacts than busting a stupid cell here (which for all we know could have been intentionally set up by Al to smoke out what the Feds might be looking for...). Perhaps by setting up their own Al Queso recruiting-honeypot site? But, no. That takes too long, and is much harder to justify to the political someones as "doing something about it".
Maybe I've read too much Tom Clancy etc in the past, where the spooks and operatives doing the actual work aren't in it for the fame or political glory, where the right thing to do is use what the enemy is using against them to bring the whole damn thing down, not just a paper cut here, or a PR opportunity there, so some political dick-suckers can talk back to their constituents (or their "consulting" gigs on CNN) and say, "we're doing something about it, see?"
Best Buy probably just has the account number, but they then cross-reference that number with credit bureau information, and with an educated guess (i.e., last reported address), they send you the stuff.
Well, Bill Gate's dad was a lawyer, after all...
Wow... my TRS 80 Model 100 runs for a week on 4 AA batteries.
Kind of makes a good long-term argument against product names that are either very unique (Kodak, Xerox) or too close to a functional description of the product, its functional domain, etc. Many of us in the US grew up (70's - 80's) taking our pictures to photo shops - little drive-through shacks, to have our pictures developed (or say "hi" to Chong). It was a clever hook by the Adobe folks, but look where it gets them now - it's too easily used as a "verb" and can turn into its own meme.
Another part of the problem is that English (at least, American english) is too flexible. Who knows what it would sound like if it had to be derived from Latin origins, or a squished-together katamari German word or abbreviation of it, etc?
But it just doesn't sound right to say, "I CGI'd the red-eye out with Photoshop".
having kids work out simple geometry proofs would do the same thing.
Uh...no. Unless you count Medicare & Social Security as "welfare" programs. The actual welfare programs (WIC, food stamps) aren't even in the line to get into those two ballparks.
They wanted the ability to sell a product, yet maintain ownership.
You mean like a condominium or any other abode with CCRs on it?
...manufacturers can simply increase their wholesale prices to very near the MSRP, making it essentially impossible to profit without selling above the manufacturer's suggested price. ...which is what the manufacturers should be doing in the first place.
MAPs are a minor assurance, from the factory, that when you hand over your money to buy their stock you're not going to end up with something worthless in your hands two weeks later because of some fly by night jerk who submarines the market to make a quick buck and leaves the existing sellers to clean up the mess (as if there aren't already enough market forces pushing against you). ...but they do NOTHING to protect the retailer that the product they buy from the factory is not going to be suddenly replaced in two weeks by a new model that the factory is providing only to "preferred" retailers, perhaps with some kickbacks to allow those retailer also to profit while on paper selling it for a loss, and also underselling all those left selling the previous model, like you, who happen to be a competitor to one of the "preferred" retailers...
I actually think the MAP laws are a subtle dig at Wal-Mart...
...and then they should fall under franchise laws, at least in the US states...
You can purchase a nice shiny Nikon D700 DSLR from a US dealer, or you can get a cheaper one that's gray-market... and you'll never get Nikon USA to service it, period.
Well... I would argue that this camera in 3 years will be obsolete anyways, and it will be cheaper to simply buy the new version du juor or a used one off of eBay/Craigslist rather than get it "serviced" (where it may possibly be cheaper/easier for the manufacturer to send you back a refurbished unit, rather than fix the one you have and send it back to you...). Such is the consumer electronics market. And, yes, the D700 is a consumer electronics unit, albeit an expensive one (today).
There is a HUGE slippery slope there. Mr. CEO of company doesn't particularly like people? Well, then restrict selling of one's products to them. But now it's under the guise of "minimum acceptable price". Sorry, commerce is supposed to be blind.
Manufacturers should be able to chose who they are going to sell their product to wholesale.
But, from there, they should lose control over future sales... They've been paid their wholesale price, it's up to the retailers to sell it for what they can. If they don't like it, then they need to jack up their wholesale prices.
It is no different really than the homeowner trying to sell his house at $350K when comparable homes in the same area are selling for $250K. Any given product is worth only what people are willing to pay for it... But, wait...that's free market economics...
Yep, but you're assuming that the "man in the middle", the ISP, doesn't have any business interest in things other than shuffling bits back and forth and solely getting paid to do that at a decent profit. Some of the ISPs (cable companies and the ILEC telcos themselves providing some of these big fat dedicated pipes to the Googles), also have internal business units that they want to push forth at the expense of the rest of the world they allege to serve. They want users on THEIR networks to use THEIR search engines, THEIR media delivery services, etc., not Google/YouTube, FaceBook, etc. Why? Well, they're not symbiotic partners, they're parasites. They don't want to be merely infrastructure that facilitates the rest of the system. They want to BE the system, and think that they are. The world of "The Matrix" is a colossal wet dream for them.
well, it's that or fund punitive social engineering projects like jails and prisons...
it was reported on a radio station yesterday that a Portland-area nurse administrator was on the hook, oddly enough, for about $400K, having responded to one of those Nigerian e-mails...
Coincidence? I think not! Microsoft agents found someone to throw under the bus!
I'd want to see Steve Wozniak do it, but he definitely would need someone to run political interference and do the necessary head banking and arm twisting...
Dean Kamen? Hmm... no.
I know, how about Mr. Wolfram? Model government as a bunch of cellular automata..