Before 9/11 banks were required to forward paper copies of all of their checks through a central clearing house. This is where the term "waiting for a check to clear" comes from. Now, they can convert these paper checks into electronic transfers. By keeping scanned copies of the paper checks, they are actually protecting you in the case that there is an error in the electronic transfer.
You are absolutely wrong about #2... Because Alcoholism is a legal disability, you can fire someone over it... What that means, is that when the person starts coming in late, or missing work because they drank to much, you can't just fire them. You have to provide them appropriate counseling in order to try and rectify the matter or let them claim disability.
As for my claim of having nothing to hide, why do I care if someone collects information about me? What I care about, is what rights I have, which is what prevents a totalitarian government, not creates. By arguing over the collection of information, you make yourself look guilty.
And forever mod'd my message as "Troll", fuck you!
Allowing corporations to control your lifestyle while away from work is very dangerous. Regarding alcohol, the only legitimate concern of a company I work for is that I am sober when I show up for work and remain sober while I am on the clock. This is the time that they pay for, and they have a right (within limits of course) to determine what I do or don't do during that time. What I do in my private, off-time that they are not paying for is absolutely none of their business. Trying to monitor what I do during my private time away from work is nothing but an invasion of privacy that should never be tolerated for any reason. I honestly can't understand why there is even a discussion about this; it's patently obvious.
I have to disagree here for two reasons...
1) What if the company provides you health insurance? By you drinking each night after work, you are increasing the likelihood that you will end up with several medical conditions, which the health insurance company will have to pay for, thus increasing the companies health insurance costs.
2) If you are an alcoholic and regularly miss work (call in sick, etc) then the company become liable for the cost of your alcohol treatment.
Those of us who have nothing to hide, have nothing to worry about.
You mean loss of privacy similar to having cctv cameras following you everywhere you go?
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Funny that you mention an OS downloaded from the Internet. Nasdaq runs on a Linux OS, which they inherited from their purchase of INET ATS (Formerly Island ECN) which was built on Fedora and Gentoo, downloaded directly from the Internet. INET ATS migrated to Linux in 2002 when it was called Island ECN, and they migrated from DOS, yes DOS running a FOX Pro database.
So you can run mission critical applications on a COMPLETELY free OS, on commodity hardware. Island and INET used both Rackable Systems servers and Dell Servers.
There was zero Microsoft or any other commercial OS in a system that handled 30% of all OTC trades and a 100% uptime.
Unfortunately you are absolutely WRONG. Nasdaq's trading system currently runs on about 100 systems from Rackable Systems running LINUX. They inherited this technology from their purchase of INET ATS (formerly Island ECN) which had been running on Linux for many years (since about 2002 when it migrated to Linux from DOS, yes I said DOS)
And unlike the post above where they supposed NYSE has a customized built directly supported by HP, the INET ATS OS, ran in different forms based on both Redhat Fedora and Gentoo, both downloaded directly from the Internet.
Why should the phone company be required to maintain money losing pay phones because you don't have a cell phone. If you think pay phones are a right, then lobby congress to have them provided by the government. Remember phones companies are just that, for profit companies.
Perhaps if you think of programming in western terms, however that is not how the XO thinks about it.
The entire XO project is designed to allow the end user to easily customize and develop it's software.
I'd rather pay for channels I don't use, then let them determine what is decent for me. If they are putting these two measures through as one bill, then I hope it fails.
That the instability of the Windows Mobile platform will keep it out of the lucrative business sector, with the Blackberry picking up the majority of the users.
And now to bring this entire chain of posts to the ultimate low!
Mr. Anonymous Coward if women like "Alpha Men" like yourself, how come this geek was about to fuck your Mom? Over and over and over...
The whole basis for the article is old news. One Wilshire has already been made a target and been completely evacuated more then once, but plans for the building were found in Afghanistan after the US invasion. But it's not only One Wilshire, it's also 111 8th Avenue, 60 Hudson and Metroplex all in the NY metro area.
People need to wise up, it would be extremely easy to take down a large portion of the telecom infrastructure in a metro area, with a very few well placed attacks.
Read the original article again. This isn't people using their cellphones for Internet access, but Verizon's EVDO service which is designed to be a primary Internet access method for people on the road.
Did anyone ever think that maybe, just maybe this is all about getting free publicity for Apple and Cisco? Seems to me that everyone all over the place is talking about both companies, tons of news coverage and pictures of the Apple phone everywhere.
The issue here has nothing to do with North West specifically, but relates to the whole industry in general. With the ability for anyone to check in for their flights online at home, this type of fraud could take it's toll on any airline.
Has everyone missed the fact that this boarding pass wouldn't actually get you on the plane as when it was scanned at the gate it would have come up invalid and the person who tried to use it would likely be arersted.
All this fake boarding pass would do is get someone past security, into the heart of the airport. You'd still have to go through the metal detectors so your ability to bring contraband into the airport is no different then if you were to buy a ticket and try and bring something through security.
If a terrorist wanted to say blow up an airport, they could likely do it by simply driving a van full of explosives up to the departures drop off area.
We are much more at risk by the fact that TSA screeners at Newark Airport (EWR) in NJ missed 20 out of 22 guns and bombs hidden in carry-on luggage which was brought through the checkpoint to test it's effectiveness.
All Chris did was make it hard for people to simply ignore the loop hole, which he did a good job at, no one will be able to ignore this issue.
An AOL split from Time Warner does two things.
1) Gets the looser off the back of TW
2) Lets AOL explore changes to it's business with out TW breathing down it's neck
AOL can survive as a seperate entity if it reduces it's cost base (which it is, through layoffs and sales), and redirect the focus of the company to compete in a defined market.
Think about it, who does AOL really compete with? Yes it's an Internet provider, but it's also a content provider, a portal provider, and many other things. I can't think of anyone who does all of those and more.
If AOL moves to compete in an ad driven market, I think it can surive.
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Before 9/11 banks were required to forward paper copies of all of their checks through a central clearing house. This is where the term "waiting for a check to clear" comes from. Now, they can convert these paper checks into electronic transfers. By keeping scanned copies of the paper checks, they are actually protecting you in the case that there is an error in the electronic transfer.
Actually, 1B isn't really that much money. It's just a lot of money to you and I.
Right, but when you fire him for being habitually late and he says it's because he's disabled, it makes for a nasty argument between lawyers.
You are absolutely wrong about #2... Because Alcoholism is a legal disability, you can fire someone over it... What that means, is that when the person starts coming in late, or missing work because they drank to much, you can't just fire them. You have to provide them appropriate counseling in order to try and rectify the matter or let them claim disability. As for my claim of having nothing to hide, why do I care if someone collects information about me? What I care about, is what rights I have, which is what prevents a totalitarian government, not creates. By arguing over the collection of information, you make yourself look guilty. And forever mod'd my message as "Troll", fuck you!
You mean loss of privacy similar to having cctv cameras following you everywhere you go?
Funny that you mention an OS downloaded from the Internet. Nasdaq runs on a Linux OS, which they inherited from their purchase of INET ATS (Formerly Island ECN) which was built on Fedora and Gentoo, downloaded directly from the Internet. INET ATS migrated to Linux in 2002 when it was called Island ECN, and they migrated from DOS, yes DOS running a FOX Pro database. So you can run mission critical applications on a COMPLETELY free OS, on commodity hardware. Island and INET used both Rackable Systems servers and Dell Servers. There was zero Microsoft or any other commercial OS in a system that handled 30% of all OTC trades and a 100% uptime.
Unfortunately you are absolutely WRONG. Nasdaq's trading system currently runs on about 100 systems from Rackable Systems running LINUX. They inherited this technology from their purchase of INET ATS (formerly Island ECN) which had been running on Linux for many years (since about 2002 when it migrated to Linux from DOS, yes I said DOS) And unlike the post above where they supposed NYSE has a customized built directly supported by HP, the INET ATS OS, ran in different forms based on both Redhat Fedora and Gentoo, both downloaded directly from the Internet.
Why should the phone company be required to maintain money losing pay phones because you don't have a cell phone. If you think pay phones are a right, then lobby congress to have them provided by the government. Remember phones companies are just that, for profit companies.
Perhaps if you think of programming in western terms, however that is not how the XO thinks about it. The entire XO project is designed to allow the end user to easily customize and develop it's software.
Being arrogant, unmoved by and ignorant of, what their users want has worked just fine for Microsoft, why shouldn't it work for Linux?
It could happen. Perhaps that is the real reason Larry Page and Sergey Brin (googles co-founders) bought a Boeing 767. http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Founders_Buy_a_76 7_Jumbo_Jet
I'd rather pay for channels I don't use, then let them determine what is decent for me. If they are putting these two measures through as one bill, then I hope it fails.
You don't think other countries will put similar policies in place? This WILL make travel for US citizens more difficult.
That explains why NASA still needs 8088's to run the shuttle program.
It's called Sarcasm.
That the instability of the Windows Mobile platform will keep it out of the lucrative business sector, with the Blackberry picking up the majority of the users.
Terror DVD, is that a new name for a movie with Rosie O'Donnell in it? If so, what a great law.
Can someone explain to me why this is even news? Seems to me the domain name system has been out of control for years, this is nothing new.
And now to bring this entire chain of posts to the ultimate low! Mr. Anonymous Coward if women like "Alpha Men" like yourself, how come this geek was about to fuck your Mom? Over and over and over...
The whole basis for the article is old news. One Wilshire has already been made a target and been completely evacuated more then once, but plans for the building were found in Afghanistan after the US invasion. But it's not only One Wilshire, it's also 111 8th Avenue, 60 Hudson and Metroplex all in the NY metro area. People need to wise up, it would be extremely easy to take down a large portion of the telecom infrastructure in a metro area, with a very few well placed attacks.
Read the original article again. This isn't people using their cellphones for Internet access, but Verizon's EVDO service which is designed to be a primary Internet access method for people on the road.
Did anyone ever think that maybe, just maybe this is all about getting free publicity for Apple and Cisco? Seems to me that everyone all over the place is talking about both companies, tons of news coverage and pictures of the Apple phone everywhere.
The issue here has nothing to do with North West specifically, but relates to the whole industry in general. With the ability for anyone to check in for their flights online at home, this type of fraud could take it's toll on any airline. Has everyone missed the fact that this boarding pass wouldn't actually get you on the plane as when it was scanned at the gate it would have come up invalid and the person who tried to use it would likely be arersted. All this fake boarding pass would do is get someone past security, into the heart of the airport. You'd still have to go through the metal detectors so your ability to bring contraband into the airport is no different then if you were to buy a ticket and try and bring something through security. If a terrorist wanted to say blow up an airport, they could likely do it by simply driving a van full of explosives up to the departures drop off area. We are much more at risk by the fact that TSA screeners at Newark Airport (EWR) in NJ missed 20 out of 22 guns and bombs hidden in carry-on luggage which was brought through the checkpoint to test it's effectiveness. All Chris did was make it hard for people to simply ignore the loop hole, which he did a good job at, no one will be able to ignore this issue.
An AOL split from Time Warner does two things. 1) Gets the looser off the back of TW 2) Lets AOL explore changes to it's business with out TW breathing down it's neck AOL can survive as a seperate entity if it reduces it's cost base (which it is, through layoffs and sales), and redirect the focus of the company to compete in a defined market. Think about it, who does AOL really compete with? Yes it's an Internet provider, but it's also a content provider, a portal provider, and many other things. I can't think of anyone who does all of those and more. If AOL moves to compete in an ad driven market, I think it can surive.