http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281722,00.html The weapons being used against them are prenatal sex selection, abortion and female infanticide — the systematic killing of girls soon after they are born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male children over female children,[1] especially in parts of People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Caucasus.
uh. they do worse things to baby girls because of the "one child" law (you can only have one.. face stiff fines for every extra kid) boys are traditionally "worth more" as evidenced by the selling price(s)
that baby could have been killed simply for being the "wrong" gender.
now, sqeezing puppies as source of income is fucked up.. but less fucked up than killing girls.
probably because the MPAA said NO... even if the file is held in memory, there's a chance someone could save it permanently (for archival purposes, of course)
"A problem for administrators is that there is no supported way to make your own bootable installation DVD. There is an unsupported hack to create one, but it can bring up other complications."
here's apples official unsupported hack to making your own recovery disc.. for the uninitiateld, you can substitue blank DVD or USB stick for USB drive. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
first thing I did was make a USB stick so I wouldn't have to download it more than once.
did I say it was victimless? no. I said 675k INDIVIDUALS were not hurt.
banks that I use?.. how about the one I work for?
banks have a line item on their P&L for all kinds of fraud. roughtly a quarter million of our account numbers were stolen on the TJMaxx incident a few years back. TJMaxx provided a list of those accounts to us and the FBI so they could be watched. if a transactions passes the fraud detection and a fraudulent charge is approved, we write it off.. just like a bad loan, or a bank robbery. cost of doing business - EVERY SINGLE credit transaction is a calculated risk. We anticipate XX number will be lost every year. it's accounted for.
believe it or not, fraud due to massive CC breaches is MUCH less than personal fraud (like the roomate/(ex)spouse stealing money because of simple passwords and the like). we take bigger losses due to lost/stolen wallets and purses than these uber breaches. (because fraudulent use of plastic at a point of sale is much harder to guard against than an online transaction using the account number)
don't forget the bank stands between the customer and the vendor for an online CC transation. We have the ability to "authorize" a charge so you get your amazon confirmation number, but secretly tell the vendor to not send the goods until we hear back from the customer (to approve the activity).
if the banks thought it was that big a deal, they'd simply CANCEL all cards processed by the TJMaxx card processor in the timeframe in question. instead those cards are flagged and montiored heavily.. why? because it's worth the cost of a few fraudulent charges to leave all the cards active and let the bad guys poke away... because they'll leave a few bread crumbs.
banks are hardly altruistic, but they excel at protecting THEIR money.
do this. go buy something online, then immediately report your card stolen. you will not get your order.. you will likely get a phone call from your bank asking you to authorize that charge in person.. or an email from the vendor telling you something went wrong.
it's not FREE money- you didn't actually get charged, the bank didn't send money to the vendor and the vendor didn't send the goods. where's the the victim?
Section 205.6 Liability of consumer for unauthorized transfers Limits a consumer's liability for unauthorized electronic fund transfers, such as those arising from loss or theft of an access device, to $50; if the consumer fails to notify the depository institution in a timely fashion, the amount may be $500 or unlimited.
my bank called me for a suspicious charge for $700. I said I didn't make that purchase, it never even hit my account. All I had to do was sign an affadavit saying it wasn't me.
don't forget, when you use a credit card, you are using the banks money, not yours. they really hate it when people steal from them - that's why they monitor credit accounts for suspicios transactions... MUCH harder to deal with a fraudulent transaction on your ATM card. don't use your ATM to buy anything.
"It definitely is functional but hardly has any of the features consumers demand."
isn't this expected (or at least not surprising). if I were a NASA engineer, I'd see the program as a tool to help me accomplish the larger task. the more time I spend on tools, the less time I spend on progress to the larger objective. I'd write the program as quickly as I could.. would not care about UI, functionality, usability or anything else, I built it for me to use - as long as the output satisfies my needs, i'd consider the task done and move on.
my friends 2 year old MBA battery died (no applecare)
they swapped it out in the store (not the battery, they gave him a refurb)
took longer to copy his data over to the new machine than it took for them to acknowledge the problem and agree to "fix" for no charge whatsoever.
my 2006 MPB toasted the logicboard.. $300 dollar replacement - when I got it back, one of the things they replaced was the battery (again, no charge)... even though the machine was 4 years old and well out of warranty. they didn't want me to buy a new machine. they wanted be to be happy with the one I had.
that's for apps from 3rd parties. say you want everyone on your team to use Angry Birds.. you buy bunch of licenses and distribite to your team. it's not terribly different than buying bulk licenses for something like Photoshop. IT buys the licenses then decides who gets one.
but
there's also a way to deploy apps made by you (or for you) internally. you don't see the SalesForce apps in the app store. You can also distribute apps via email (in your company) if each device is provisioned. once it is, you can get the ipa file via any means, and install with itunes. this is how my company distributed our app for pilot testing (in production) before it was submitted to the store for public consumption.
wonder if the barrier is caused by the constant, unidirectional flow of air from a fan? while it's hardly an efficient/practical design, would you achieve the same efficiency if you moved a fan around the heat sink?
depends on where they want to implement the technology.
not sure i'd want my arms/legs/hands moving much before I actually intended
"Being able to predict a human’s desired movements using brain signals takes us one step closer to using those signals to control prosthetic limbs in movement-impaired patient populations, like those who suffer from spinal cord injuries or locked-in syndrome.”
The team found that by using the signals from many brain regions, they could predict, better than chance, which of the actions the volunteer was merely intending to do, seconds later.
key word there is intend - sounds like they're able to detect/predict before a conscious decision was made.
sounds pretty god damn legal to me if they're FILING on your behalf as well. In addition to wills, they do LLC, trademarks, etc.
After the user answers the inquiries, he must pay to proceed further. Upon payment, the software draws up a customized document based on templates devised by lawyers, though not necessarily lawyers from the user's state. If appropriate, LegalZoom will also automatically file the document with the pertinent government agency.
An instant later, both Professor Waxman, and his time machine are obliterated, leaving the cold-blooded / warm-blooded dinosaur debate still unresolved.
what the fuck does trust have to do with shitty code?
"Sunway issued patches for the vulnerabilities on May 20 and thanked Beresford for his research in an advisory. ICS-CERT said there are no known exploits for the vulnerabilities, but computer security experts generally recommend patching software as soon as possible."
- Possession, manufacture and distribution of images of child abuse; - International money laundering and illegal cyber-banking; - Illegal arms trafficking and illegal export of strategic/controlled commodities;- - Drug trafficking, including trafficking in prohibited pharmaceuticals; - General smuggling, including trafficking in stolen art and antiquities and violations of the Endangered Species Act; - Intellectual property rights violations, including music and software; - Immigration violations; and - Identity and benefit fraud.
Slashdot Mirror
T-1000 (beta)
if you have the income
else
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1506469.stm
On the garbage dumps that surround Beijing, scavengers from time to time will find a newborn baby girl amid the stinking refuge.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281722,00.html
The weapons being used against them are prenatal sex selection, abortion and female infanticide — the systematic killing of girls soon after they are born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion
The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male children over female children,[1] especially in parts of People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Caucasus.
signed - cow with keyboard.
moo.
uh. they do worse things to baby girls because of the "one child" law (you can only have one.. face stiff fines for every extra kid) boys are traditionally "worth more" as evidenced by the selling price(s)
that baby could have been killed simply for being the "wrong" gender.
now, sqeezing puppies as source of income is fucked up.. but less fucked up than killing girls.
probably because the MPAA said NO... even if the file is held in memory, there's a chance someone could save it permanently (for archival purposes, of course)
99% of the people who DONT read slashdot don't give a shit.. or they've forgotten about that mess already.
I'll bet most of them think it's MORE secure now because they "fixed" it.
"A problem for administrators is that there is no supported way to make your own bootable installation DVD. There is an unsupported hack to create one, but it can bring up other complications."
here's apples official unsupported hack to making your own recovery disc.. for the uninitiateld, you can substitue blank DVD or USB stick for USB drive.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
first thing I did was make a USB stick so I wouldn't have to download it more than once.
did I say it was victimless? no. I said 675k INDIVIDUALS were not hurt.
banks that I use?.. how about the one I work for?
banks have a line item on their P&L for all kinds of fraud. roughtly a quarter million of our account numbers were stolen on the TJMaxx incident a few years back. TJMaxx provided a list of those accounts to us and the FBI so they could be watched. if a transactions passes the fraud detection and a fraudulent charge is approved, we write it off.. just like a bad loan, or a bank robbery. cost of doing business - EVERY SINGLE credit transaction is a calculated risk. We anticipate XX number will be lost every year. it's accounted for.
believe it or not, fraud due to massive CC breaches is MUCH less than personal fraud (like the roomate/(ex)spouse stealing money because of simple passwords and the like). we take bigger losses due to lost/stolen wallets and purses than these uber breaches. (because fraudulent use of plastic at a point of sale is much harder to guard against than an online transaction using the account number)
don't forget the bank stands between the customer and the vendor for an online CC transation. We have the ability to "authorize" a charge so you get your amazon confirmation number, but secretly tell the vendor to not send the goods until we hear back from the customer (to approve the activity).
if the banks thought it was that big a deal, they'd simply CANCEL all cards processed by the TJMaxx card processor in the timeframe in question. instead those cards are flagged and montiored heavily.. why? because it's worth the cost of a few fraudulent charges to leave all the cards active and let the bad guys poke away... because they'll leave a few bread crumbs.
banks are hardly altruistic, but they excel at protecting THEIR money.
do this. go buy something online, then immediately report your card stolen. you will not get your order.. you will likely get a phone call from your bank asking you to authorize that charge in person.. or an email from the vendor telling you something went wrong.
it's not FREE money- you didn't actually get charged, the bank didn't send money to the vendor and the vendor didn't send the goods. where's the the victim?
no people were harmed in this crime.. banks are on the hook for fraudulent charges (for electronic transactions).
http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/regecg.htm
Section 205.6 Liability of consumer for unauthorized transfers
Limits a consumer's liability for unauthorized electronic fund transfers, such as those arising from loss or theft of an access device, to $50; if the consumer fails to notify the depository institution in a timely fashion, the amount may be $500 or unlimited.
my bank called me for a suspicious charge for $700. I said I didn't make that purchase, it never even hit my account. All I had to do was sign an affadavit saying it wasn't me.
don't forget, when you use a credit card, you are using the banks money, not yours. they really hate it when people steal from them - that's why they monitor credit accounts for suspicios transactions... MUCH harder to deal with a fraudulent transaction on your ATM card. don't use your ATM to buy anything.
maybe the point isn't to prove anything but provide a common reference point and place to discuss these encoders.
so.. those who prefer codec A go that way,
those who prefer codec B use that one, and
those who have an affinity for donkey shit go with C.
this isn't called the Hydorgen Audio Contest, it's called the Hydrogen Audio Test..
what is the objective of running tests? gethering data.
"It definitely is functional but hardly has any of the features consumers demand."
isn't this expected (or at least not surprising). if I were a NASA engineer, I'd see the program as a tool to help me accomplish the larger task. the more time I spend on tools, the less time I spend on progress to the larger objective. I'd write the program as quickly as I could.. would not care about UI, functionality, usability or anything else, I built it for me to use - as long as the output satisfies my needs, i'd consider the task done and move on.
my friends 2 year old MBA battery died (no applecare)
they swapped it out in the store (not the battery, they gave him a refurb)
took longer to copy his data over to the new machine than it took for them to acknowledge the problem and agree to "fix" for no charge whatsoever.
my 2006 MPB toasted the logicboard.. $300 dollar replacement - when I got it back, one of the things they replaced was the battery (again, no charge)... even though the machine was 4 years old and well out of warranty. they didn't want me to buy a new machine. they wanted be to be happy with the one I had.
why waste a train to get it done?
at least it matches the weather report
http://www.weathercity.com/cn/33/shuangyu/?u=i
that's for apps from 3rd parties. say you want everyone on your team to use Angry Birds.. you buy bunch of licenses and distribite to your team. it's not terribly different than buying bulk licenses for something like Photoshop. IT buys the licenses then decides who gets one.
but
there's also a way to deploy apps made by you (or for you) internally. you don't see the SalesForce apps in the app store. You can also distribute apps via email (in your company) if each device is provisioned. once it is, you can get the ipa file via any means, and install with itunes. this is how my company distributed our app for pilot testing (in production) before it was submitted to the store for public consumption.
more like a bottle rocket. the whole rig only weighs 12 ounces.
except this one can roll around when it lands.. aerial and ground recon on one package.
and @1300 bucks - expendable.
http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/
wonder if the barrier is caused by the constant, unidirectional flow of air from a fan?
while it's hardly an efficient/practical design, would you achieve the same efficiency if you moved a fan around the heat sink?
depends on where they want to implement the technology.
not sure i'd want my arms/legs/hands moving much before I actually intended
"Being able to predict a human’s desired movements using brain signals takes us one step closer to using those signals to control prosthetic limbs in movement-impaired patient populations, like those who suffer from spinal cord injuries or locked-in syndrome.”
The team found that by using the signals from many brain regions, they could predict, better than chance, which of the actions the volunteer was merely intending to do, seconds later.
key word there is intend - sounds like they're able to detect/predict before a conscious decision was made.
sounds pretty god damn legal to me if they're FILING on your behalf as well. In addition to wills, they do LLC, trademarks, etc.
After the user answers the inquiries, he must pay to proceed further. Upon payment, the software draws up a customized document based on templates devised by lawyers, though not necessarily lawyers from the user's state. If appropriate, LegalZoom will also automatically file the document with the pertinent government agency.
http://www.pulse.org.za/pulse/farside.html
An instant later, both Professor Waxman, and his time machine are obliterated, leaving the cold-blooded / warm-blooded dinosaur debate still unresolved.
what the fuck does trust have to do with shitty code?
"Sunway issued patches for the vulnerabilities on May 20 and thanked Beresford for his research in an advisory. ICS-CERT said there are no known exploits for the vulnerabilities, but computer security experts generally recommend patching software as soon as possible."
um.. do you still have a job? I mean.. with layoffs and all.
ICE = immigration and CUSTOMS enforcement.
http://www.ice.gov/about/overview/
http://www.ice.gov/cyber-crimes/
see bullet 6
- Possession, manufacture and distribution of images of child abuse;
- International money laundering and illegal cyber-banking;
- Illegal arms trafficking and illegal export of strategic/controlled commodities;-
- Drug trafficking, including trafficking in prohibited pharmaceuticals;
- General smuggling, including trafficking in stolen art and antiquities and violations of the Endangered Species Act;
- Intellectual property rights violations, including music and software;
- Immigration violations; and
- Identity and benefit fraud.