People seem to leave this part out. They keep screaming about the 'bailouts' and tax payer money being 'wasted'. That money has been, for the most part, repaid, with interest.
Baloney. Of the $550B disbursed, only $230B has been returned and that doesn't take into account the cost of money for the interim.
For as long as I can remember (practically since deregulation) the airlines' approach has been to maximize profits through increased pricing complexity - or "efficient yield management" as they are more likely to label it. The core reason for the existence of airline fare search engines is to reduce pricing complexity. Therefore it seems obvious that the airlines would do everything they can to kill the search engines - but they can only go so far because they more they squeeze, the more consumer demand they create for the search engines. Where is equilibrium? I dunno. I would like for it to be at the point where the airlines quit the pricing games and try to compete on service instead, but that would be too easy.
For example, we're looking at taking in student essays in PDF, attaching a form to the front that marks can be entered into, and the whole document returned to the submission system that then pulls the mark out (as opposed to having to track the mark independently of the material it applies to).
That's ripe for a hack. A smart kid will come up with code he can add to his PDF at submission that will identify the form and change the mark to a higher grade and then, if he's really clever, rewrite the PDF to delete any sign of the grade changing code.
Unless you truly believe that empty apartment blocks or even empty cities are a good investment and property prices will always go up that game has to end at some point and when it does China won't be able to hide the pain.
Here are a bunch of satellite photos of these "ghost cities" - I can't say if the commentary is accurate or misleading, but at the very least there are practically no cars visible on any of the streets which suggests that most of it is true.
Man, talk about an undeserved sense of entitlement.
Man, talk about an undeserved sense of superiority.
I imagine you would like noting more than allowing drunk 10 year olds to fly planes then.
I imagine you would like nothing more than requiring proof of land-ownership and a minimum age of 35 to drive then. Or have you failed to understand the implications of "impose whatever conditions they see fit?"
(The only way to get rid of Backup Assistant, Skype and the You Tube apps, from what I've seen in the Android forums, is to "root" my phone, which will void the warranty.)
I've been thinking about a business plan for a startup to sell VPN services to smartphone users. The added value is that the VPN would incorporate a transparent proxy with "deep" packet filtering in order to block or otherwise anonymize all the unnecessary privacy-invasive crap that various popular applications do. That would provide much of, if not more than, the typical privacy benefits of just rooting a phone without the effort of doing so, plus no worries about app-store policies interfering with allowed functionality (as far as affecting other apps goes). I figure we could offer a top-notch legal privacy guarantee for all the traffic we route and clean-up that would trump all of the wishy-washy non-guarantees that you get from google/apple/verizon/etc today. Still thinking about how to handle encrypted traffic though.
Given the 90%+ piracy rates these sorts of games see, they'd need to lose a hell of a lot of users to bad DRM if it's actually effective at stopping piracy.
It is possible to be 100% effective at stopping piracy and still not improve their bottom line one iota - if all the former pirates just decide to focus their attention elsewhere. That would probably be a net loss since a 90% drop in userbase would probably translate into a major loss in word-of-mouth promotion too.
He only illustrated your point when you lied by deliberately misattributing a quote to him. When you have to lie to make a point, your point is not worth making.
What the fuck are you talking about? Its a cut-and-paste straight from his post. Seems to me that the only one lying here is you.
Perhaps 80% of people understand that the release of most of these documents had nothing to do with holding the government accountable, but rather was intended as a detrimental action against the government.
Right, it wasn't news reporting, it was an attack on the US government. Thanks for illustrating my point exactly.
We (Americans) CERTAINLY do not have the right to drive a car on public roadways which are under the authority of the government we elect.
PS, capitalizing it doesn't make it true. I put forth a reasonable argument based on the basic constitutional principle of the freedom of movement, you didn't even come close to rebutting it. All you did was yell louder.
As a result we can be forced to comply with the laws set forth by the local and state governments.
Depends on the definition of "the laws" - for example a law preventing convicted felons from driving would be unlikely to pass constitutional muster because there is no reasonable connection simply being a felon and being a danger on the highway.
At least, here in Washington, you need a license to drive. And a license to drive is a privilege, for which the state is free to impose whatever conditions they see fit.
Which, at its heart, is a fundamental violation of basic constitutional rights. The right of freedom of movement means nothing if it is restricted to only certain means of travel.
They aren't being duped, or sleepwalking into it, they are begging for some movement sufficiently authoritarian to allow them to absolve themselves of the painful business of maintaining a personal ego and subsume themselves in some forceful mass-movement. The ideas that diversity is deviance and dissent is treason are self-evident homespun wisdom in many quarters.
Just look at the massive disapproval of wikileaks for proof - at one point in recent weeks a polled showed a staggering 80% disapproval rate among US residents. It comes in all forms - Palinites accusing wikileaks supporters of being dirty terrorist sympathising liberals like Ron Paul and frothy left-wingers making up all kinds of criteria to differentiate wikileaks from "real" news reporting -- all on top of a common foundation of populist authoritarianism.
Families will watch the Super Bowl, including kids, because it's considered to be "relatively" safe. Although, the FCC should be doing more about the commercials shown during the event.
Maybe that consideration needs to be changed to reflect reality.
Are you 'pro-profiling' people really so stupid that you can't grasp 'If we search group X more than group Y, terrorists will make sure to be in group Y, or hell, just make sure one member of their group can fake being in group Y and have them carry the stuff.'?
I remember reading that Comcast has an opt-out for the non-standard 404 pages, I'm sure other ISPs have a similar option if you look hard enough. Probably easier just to use external DNS instead though
Verizon just uses a different server address, I think it was the lame one's address +1.
In the long run a Palin presidency would be a disaster for Democrats and Republicans, not to mention Americans in general. These people shouldn't flirt with disaster.
You didn't even have to change the lyrics to make this one apropos.
Skid marks, charred cars Litter the road to no good Sign says, "Turn back" I know I would if I could
Downhill, brakes gone turning, my knuckles all white This girl she's trouble makes you hold on for dear life In the dark a siren screams As nightmare wakes you from the dream
Flirting with disaster, playing with fire She's more than I can master 'cause I'm a slave to desire Shouldn't go no faster, I'm tempting fate I know flirting with disaster What a way to go, way to go, way to go
Her kiss sheer bliss, one's enough to put you in shock Her hips launch ships send 'em right on to the rocks Too late, the first mate just cut the anchor She couldn't wait heave ho-here goes
In the eye of the hurricane The thrill is always worth the pain
Flirting with disaster-playing with fire She's more than I can master 'cause I'm a slave to desire Shouldn't go no faster, I'm tempting fate I know flirting with disaster What a way to go, way to go, way to go
Strike the match Light the fuse Blow the hatch Feel the bruise
Paradise or suicide You might as well enjoy the ride
I thought it was rather embarrassing for the republicans when they tried these tactics against Obama. It saddens me that apparently some democrats are sinking to their level. Really, I can't imagine this being successful anyway.
Have you considered that it might not really be democrats behind it? If Palin runs, the republican primaries are going to be vicious. One of the other republican contenders could easily be behind this knowing full well it probably won't help palin but news of it may mobilize the saner parts of the republican party.
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People seem to leave this part out. They keep screaming about the 'bailouts' and tax payer money being 'wasted'. That money has been, for the most part, repaid, with interest.
Baloney. Of the $550B disbursed, only $230B has been returned and that doesn't take into account the cost of money for the interim.
For as long as I can remember (practically since deregulation) the airlines' approach has been to maximize profits through increased pricing complexity - or "efficient yield management" as they are more likely to label it. The core reason for the existence of airline fare search engines is to reduce pricing complexity. Therefore it seems obvious that the airlines would do everything they can to kill the search engines - but they can only go so far because they more they squeeze, the more consumer demand they create for the search engines. Where is equilibrium? I dunno. I would like for it to be at the point where the airlines quit the pricing games and try to compete on service instead, but that would be too easy.
You use that word, but I don't think you know what it means.
Really? Is there some other definition that is not synonymous with an intended detrimental action that I am unaware of?
For example, we're looking at taking in student essays in PDF, attaching a form to the front that marks can be entered into, and the whole document returned to the submission system that then pulls the mark out (as opposed to having to track the mark independently of the material it applies to).
That's ripe for a hack. A smart kid will come up with code he can add to his PDF at submission that will identify the form and change the mark to a higher grade and then, if he's really clever, rewrite the PDF to delete any sign of the grade changing code.
Unless you truly believe that empty apartment blocks or even empty cities are a good investment and property prices will always go up that game has to end at some point and when it does China won't be able to hide the pain.
Here are a bunch of satellite photos of these "ghost cities" - I can't say if the commentary is accurate or misleading, but at the very least there are practically no cars visible on any of the streets which suggests that most of it is true.
Man, talk about an undeserved sense of entitlement.
Man, talk about an undeserved sense of superiority.
I imagine you would like noting more than allowing drunk 10 year olds to fly planes then.
I imagine you would like nothing more than requiring proof of land-ownership and a minimum age of 35 to drive then.
Or have you failed to understand the implications of "impose whatever conditions they see fit?"
(The only way to get rid of Backup Assistant, Skype and the You Tube apps, from what I've seen in the Android forums, is to "root" my phone, which will void the warranty.)
I've been thinking about a business plan for a startup to sell VPN services to smartphone users. The added value is that the VPN would incorporate a transparent proxy with "deep" packet filtering in order to block or otherwise anonymize all the unnecessary privacy-invasive crap that various popular applications do. That would provide much of, if not more than, the typical privacy benefits of just rooting a phone without the effort of doing so, plus no worries about app-store policies interfering with allowed functionality (as far as affecting other apps goes). I figure we could offer a top-notch legal privacy guarantee for all the traffic we route and clean-up that would trump all of the wishy-washy non-guarantees that you get from google/apple/verizon/etc today. Still thinking about how to handle encrypted traffic though.
Given the 90%+ piracy rates these sorts of games see, they'd need to lose a hell of a lot of users to bad DRM if it's actually effective at stopping piracy.
It is possible to be 100% effective at stopping piracy and still not improve their bottom line one iota - if all the former pirates just decide to focus their attention elsewhere. That would probably be a net loss since a 90% drop in userbase would probably translate into a major loss in word-of-mouth promotion too.
He only illustrated your point when you lied by deliberately misattributing a quote to him. When you have to lie to make a point, your point is not worth making.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Its a cut-and-paste straight from his post.
Seems to me that the only one lying here is you.
Perhaps 80% of people understand that the release of most of these documents had nothing to do with holding the government accountable, but rather was intended as a detrimental action against the government.
Right, it wasn't news reporting, it was an attack on the US government. Thanks for illustrating my point exactly.
We (Americans) CERTAINLY do not have the right to drive a car on public roadways which are under the authority of the government we elect.
PS, capitalizing it doesn't make it true. I put forth a reasonable argument based on the basic constitutional principle of the freedom of movement, you didn't even come close to rebutting it. All you did was yell louder.
As a result we can be forced to comply with the laws set forth by the local and state governments.
Depends on the definition of "the laws" - for example a law preventing convicted felons from driving would be unlikely to pass constitutional muster because there is no reasonable connection simply being a felon and being a danger on the highway.
At least, here in Washington, you need a license to drive. And a license to drive is a privilege, for which the state is free to impose whatever conditions they see fit.
Which, at its heart, is a fundamental violation of basic constitutional rights. The right of freedom of movement means nothing if it is restricted to only certain means of travel.
They aren't being duped, or sleepwalking into it, they are begging for some movement sufficiently authoritarian to allow them to absolve themselves of the painful business of maintaining a personal ego and subsume themselves in some forceful mass-movement. The ideas that diversity is deviance and dissent is treason are self-evident homespun wisdom in many quarters.
Just look at the massive disapproval of wikileaks for proof - at one point in recent weeks a polled showed a staggering 80% disapproval rate among US residents. It comes in all forms - Palinites accusing wikileaks supporters of being dirty terrorist sympathising liberals like Ron Paul and frothy left-wingers making up all kinds of criteria to differentiate wikileaks from "real" news reporting -- all on top of a common foundation of populist authoritarianism.
if you plan to drink, plan to get a ride. if you werent drinking, you have nothing to fear about a breath test.
Unless, that is, you are diabetic or on a low-carb diet
Families will watch the Super Bowl, including kids, because it's considered to be "relatively" safe. Although, the FCC should be doing more about the commercials shown during the event.
Maybe that consideration needs to be changed to reflect reality.
Are you 'pro-profiling' people really so stupid that you can't grasp 'If we search group X more than group Y, terrorists will make sure to be in group Y, or hell, just make sure one member of their group can fake being in group Y and have them carry the stuff.'?
Jihad Jane
Don't be ego-centric, realize this likely doesn't apply to you, and you will in no way shape or form be effected by this.
Pastor Martin Niemöller would disagree.
I remember reading that Comcast has an opt-out for the non-standard 404 pages, I'm sure other ISPs have a similar option if you look hard enough. Probably easier just to use external DNS instead though
Verizon just uses a different server address, I think it was the lame one's address +1.
You are a little overconfident.
as a lawyer, I hope I can communicate clearly.
My head just asploded.
In the long run a Palin presidency would be a disaster for Democrats and Republicans, not to mention Americans in general. These people shouldn't flirt with disaster.
You didn't even have to change the lyrics to make this one apropos.
Skid marks, charred cars
Litter the road to no good
Sign says, "Turn back"
I know I would if I could
Downhill, brakes gone turning, my knuckles all white
This girl she's trouble makes you hold on for dear life
In the dark a siren screams
As nightmare wakes you from the dream
Flirting with disaster, playing with fire
She's more than I can master 'cause I'm a slave to desire
Shouldn't go no faster, I'm tempting fate
I know flirting with disaster
What a way to go, way to go, way to go
Her kiss sheer bliss, one's enough to put you in shock
Her hips launch ships send 'em right on to the rocks
Too late, the first mate just cut the anchor
She couldn't wait heave ho-here goes
In the eye of the hurricane
The thrill is always worth the pain
Flirting with disaster-playing with fire
She's more than I can master 'cause I'm a slave to desire
Shouldn't go no faster, I'm tempting fate
I know flirting with disaster
What a way to go, way to go, way to go
Strike the match
Light the fuse
Blow the hatch
Feel the bruise
Paradise or suicide
You might as well enjoy the ride
Being president is worthless. Everyone knows the only winning move is to not to play.
$65M is nothing to sneeze at
I thought it was rather embarrassing for the republicans when they tried these tactics against Obama. It saddens me that apparently some democrats are sinking to their level. Really, I can't imagine this being successful anyway.
Have you considered that it might not really be democrats behind it? If Palin runs, the republican primaries are going to be vicious.
One of the other republican contenders could easily be behind this knowing full well it probably won't help palin but news of it may mobilize the saner parts of the republican party.