All it takes is a day of antibiotics prescription to make the pill unreliable.
Yep, that's why doctors tell you about the interaction between the antibiotic and the pill when the they write the prescription.
Ok, you got me, if you live in a country that (stupidly) sells antibiotics over the counter and you don't read the warning label, then you may be in for a surprise.
Puking up the pill ought to be self-evident, consider getting pregnant in that situation the cost of stupidity.
With all due respect to the writer of the article, in practical terms, I'm not sure what this means to the viewer of the film . ..
Not much, it just means a less cost to create the same end result. Some details of the end result may not have been fiscally possible otherwise, but only the film freaks would really notice them.
For the most part, it just means more profit for the MPAA-members distributing the film and Rodriguez himself.
However, I have to admire Rodriguez for his "guerilla" approach to film-making, he's an indie director that, for the most part, still runs his productions as if they were independent productions (i.e. very frugally, pushing the edges of best-bang-for-the-buck), just with larger budgets. In that sense, what he does as somewhat of a trailblazer trickles down, enabling future indie productions to reach higher levels of technical quality for the same budget.
I'm guessing you would learn that after the pregnancy announcement?
If she has a serious hormone imbalance she will know that she is not normal long before you ever meet her. There is a good chance she'll already be on the pill as a method to correct the hormonal problems and she will have been fully briefed by her doctor on the contraceptive issues as part of that treatment.
I would love to continue this conversation, but I am going for a weekend drive. I will be wearing a seat belt despite the fact that I also have an air bag.
Hey, inexperienced AND innumerate too! You'll go far in life!
You clearly speak as one of the inexperienced, no surprise on slashdot.
Unless the woman is a biological freak, in which case she has other problems, the pill is 100% effective. That's right 100% - as long as the dosing regimen is stricly followed. All published failure rates for the pill are based on the n out of 100 girls who could not remember to take it each day. Those girls should probably be using something like depo-provera.
So, when the girl is on the pill, the man's part of "equally sharing effort and responsibility" is to A) remind her to take the pill each day that she needs to, and B) doublecheck with her before each screw.
Sometimes it also means being the one who gets up out of bed, gets a glass of water and brings her that day's pill so she won't have to do it herself.
My credit score dropped 60 points because of high credit card levels.
Big deal, if you have good credit in the first place, 60 points won't make a difference in the kind of interest rates you can qualify for if you need a loan.
Meanwhile, by using debit cards you:
1) Lost federal protection for fraud, you have to rely on company promises which may evaporate or change meaning when you can least afford it. This include the standard getting your money back but also covers things that can't happen with a credit card like bounced check penalties (from both your bank and the merchant to whom you wrote out the check) because your account was fraudulently overdrawn.
2) Lost the free income due to interest on the float, at $6K/month it adds up.
3) Put at risk your ability to do chargebacks - all credit cards process chargebacks for free per federal law, some debit cards charge you a fee to process a chargeback because, well they can since there is no law regulating that.
So, I stand by my original statement debit cards are for suckers - the suckers who believe the advertising (which you apparently have when you claim fraud protection is identical when it isn't) or the suckers who can't manage their credit (in which case 60 points on your credit score can make or break a loan qualification).
As for unique numbers, as another poster already said, it depends on your bank and that also goes just as much for debit cards. When my CU issued my wife and I ATM/debit combo cards they both had the same numbers, which were derivative of the checking account# they were linked to. (we immediately had the CU disable the debit functionality because we did not want the additional risk with no additional value).
And in exchange for that convenience you give up any semblence of privacy in your transactions.
Don't think that just means VISA or MC knows everything you buy because it is bigger than that. There are consumer tracking companies that merchants subscribe to that cross-reference each merchant's sale records with the CC#'s to build profiles of customers that shop at multiple merchants using the service.
So, you may think the drugstore where you bought condoms doesn't know where you live, but since your home address is on file with, say, Blockbuster, you might just get some junkmail from the drugstore in a few weeks offering you a deal to come down and by some more condoms.
If you've wife's on the pill, she might have some questions when the mailman visits that day.
Either the kind of sucker who believes all the advertising or the kind of sucker who can't manage credit and thus has such a poor credit history that they can't get a real credit card.
In ALL ways credit cards are equal or better than debit cards.
Meanwhile, if you wish to avoid people stealing your CC# online, get a card with Citibank or MBNA. Both of them have the 100% free service of generating single-use or "disposable" credit card accounts with configurable spending limits and expiration dates that can only be used by a single merchant. So if someone steals it after the legit vendor has charged it, it is no good. If the legit vendor turns out to be not so legit, they still can't charge more than you authorized.
I've used my MBNA "shopsafe" account for tens of thousands of dollars worth of charges online and never once had any fraud. Reportedly, neither MBNA nor citibank have ever experienced fraudulent charges on their disposable numbers, but that may just be advertising hype.
I have a lot of bosses who would give me a bad reference simply because I moved on.
> I find your statement very strange. I've never seen a single bad > reference (I hear most people fear giving a bad references for > legal reasons). If you've had multiple previous bosses trash > you, maybe there is something wrong with you?
Nah, he's not the problem. It just his taste in women, all his ex-wives are real bitches, you can't blame him for that.
Digital restrictions are pointless. The whole reason the Internet exists is to enabling low-to-zero cost sharing of information. Trying to fight that with artificial restrictions is like trying to put the genie back into the bottle.
Instead of being so single-mindly focused on the bottle, Hollywoud ought to be asking the genie to grant their three wishes. In other words, they should be looking for ways to make money that leverage the zero-cost to share of information on the net rather than fight it.
He made a valid point, if you "play nice" and don't break any of apple's rules, you won't be able to play the restricted files on non-apple-approved systems, like, for example, that little OS we hear about sometimes around here, called, "linux."
You aren't buying music from itunes, you are buying the ability to play some music some places some of the time.
Your current employer is trying to walk all over you. Do not allow them to.
Here's what is reasonable for a professional: 1) Two weeks notice
That's it. NOTHING more.
If you want to do more for them, then treat it like a brand new business arrangement, everything is on the table and you should not hesitate to take as much of it as you can.
That means, that under no circumstances, would a professional EVER give away their time for LESS than they were being compensated for before. To do so is to open yourself up to all kinds of continuing employment abuse. Do not, in any way, allow any sort of feelings of guilt or the like manipulate you into discounting your worth. Apparently they NEED you and in business that translates into paying MORE, not less.
Go to the RealRates forum for sage advice from experienced contractors on how to handle this former employer's needs without letting him take advantage of you.
PS, that your former boss would demand these things of you suggests that you've been mistreated all along and probably didn't realize it (I bet you were vastly underpaid and probably more than a little overworked). A stand-up guy would try to negotiate fairly, but he is clearly NOT doing that, instead is trying to manipulate you. That means the gloves are off and HE took them off, do not feel bad about playing hardball yourself, he started it after all.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
Maybe the samples are not DRM - or am I not understanding somthing here?
Some of the samples are DRM'ed, some are not. Generally the previews of "real" (non-IMAX) movies have been DRM'ed about half the time, usually with the phone-home type. As if the studios want to track who's looking at the previews or something.
Could anyone elaborate on this? Last I heard, mplayer could not do DRM'd WM9 files. Will it play high-def WM9 files with DRM too? How about the ones with "phone-home" DRM? How about the ones on a DVD-ROM like this WMV-HD Italian Job?
It would appear that they are more savvy, and receive more training, but who knows?
The answer is, "it depends."
It depends A LOT on the individual security people at each site. Some are idiots. Some are competent. Anecdotally, the higher up the DSS management chain you go, the more likely they are to be idiots because they are further and further divorced from the technical details and thus prone to more and more "hand-waving" like "it only takes a simple script to do the firewalling" and "no open source software allowed on the internal network because some of the contributors are foreign nationals" (while closed-source software written entirely in Pakistan, China or Russia is fine as long as it comes through an American reseller who disclaims all liability for anything anyway).
A lot of the official security protocols are general guidelines that are meant to be interpreted locally by well trained, if not expert, security officers. When you have well trained or expert security officers, everything goes well. When you don't have them, it because a whole lot of sound and fury with little actual security.
Does that company still exist? If so, what is its name?
I've been talking about that kind of CC# based cross-referencing for years, but I've never been able to give people a concrete example. Having the name of one company that actually does that kind of work would be useful, if for no other reason to make people take my point more seriously.
They probably got your info from the phone company. They teleco's sell all the info they have on you to anyone with the bucks. I always get my phone number listed in the name of an imaginary roommate (because it is free versus paying for an unlisted number which is not really all that unlisted) and you would be surprised all the weird stuff my imaginary friends have received in the mail over the years.
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Boy you sure are clever!!
All it takes is a day of antibiotics prescription to make the pill unreliable.
Yep, that's why doctors tell you about the interaction between the antibiotic and the pill when the they write the prescription.
Ok, you got me, if you live in a country that (stupidly) sells antibiotics over the counter and you don't read the warning label, then you may be in for a surprise.
Puking up the pill ought to be self-evident, consider getting pregnant in that situation the cost of stupidity.
With all due respect to the writer of the article, in practical terms, I'm not sure what this means to the viewer of the film . . .
Not much, it just means a less cost to create the same end result. Some details of the end result may not have been fiscally possible otherwise, but only the film freaks would really notice them.
For the most part, it just means more profit for the MPAA-members distributing the film and Rodriguez himself.
However, I have to admire Rodriguez for his "guerilla" approach to film-making, he's an indie director that, for the most part, still runs his productions as if they were independent productions (i.e. very frugally, pushing the edges of best-bang-for-the-buck), just with larger budgets. In that sense, what he does as somewhat of a trailblazer trickles down, enabling future indie productions to reach higher levels of technical quality for the same budget.
I'm guessing you would learn that after the pregnancy announcement?
If she has a serious hormone imbalance she will know that she is not normal long before you ever meet her. There is a good chance she'll already be on the pill as a method to correct the hormonal problems and she will have been fully briefed by her doctor on the contraceptive issues as part of that treatment.
I would love to continue this conversation, but I am going for a weekend drive. I will be wearing a seat belt despite the fact that I also have an air bag.
Hey, inexperienced AND innumerate too! You'll go far in life!
You clearly speak as one of the inexperienced, no surprise on slashdot.
Unless the woman is a biological freak, in which case she has other problems, the pill is 100% effective. That's right 100% - as long as the dosing regimen is stricly followed. All published failure rates for the pill are based on the n out of 100 girls who could not remember to take it each day. Those girls should probably be using something like depo-provera.
So, when the girl is on the pill, the man's part of "equally sharing effort and responsibility" is to A) remind her to take the pill each day that she needs to, and B) doublecheck with her before each screw.
Sometimes it also means being the one who gets up out of bed, gets a glass of water and brings her that day's pill so she won't have to do it herself.
Capiche?
Then the answer is simple. Don't fuck around on your wife.
Ever hear of the word, "example?"
Just because someone knows what I purchased where... you know, it really doesn't matter in the whole scheme of things.
Yeah, sure, the innocent have nothing to hide.
Heard that one before.
I have no need to buy stuff on credit.
You are clearly ignorant of much of the power of credit cards, none of which requires you to carry a balance.
Do some research, consider it the financial equivalent of checking out the "preferences" panel of firefox.
My credit score dropped 60 points because of high credit card levels.
Big deal, if you have good credit in the first place, 60 points won't make a difference in the kind of interest rates you can qualify for if you need a loan.
Meanwhile, by using debit cards you:
1) Lost federal protection for fraud, you have to rely on company promises which may evaporate or change meaning when you can least afford it. This include the standard getting your money back but also covers things that can't happen with a credit card like bounced check penalties (from both your bank and the merchant to whom you wrote out the check) because your account was fraudulently overdrawn.
2) Lost the free income due to interest on the float, at $6K/month it adds up.
3) Put at risk your ability to do chargebacks - all credit cards process chargebacks for free per federal law, some debit cards charge you a fee to process a chargeback because, well they can since there is no law regulating that.
So, I stand by my original statement debit cards are for suckers - the suckers who believe the advertising (which you apparently have when you claim fraud protection is identical when it isn't) or the suckers who can't manage their credit (in which case 60 points on your credit score can make or break a loan qualification).
As for unique numbers, as another poster already said, it depends on your bank and that also goes just as much for debit cards. When my CU issued my wife and I ATM/debit combo cards they both had the same numbers, which were derivative of the checking account# they were linked to. (we immediately had the CU disable the debit functionality because we did not want the additional risk with no additional value).
Cards are way more convenient
And in exchange for that convenience you give up any semblence of privacy in your transactions.
Don't think that just means VISA or MC knows everything you buy because it is bigger than that. There are consumer tracking companies that merchants subscribe to that cross-reference each merchant's sale records with the CC#'s to build profiles of customers that shop at multiple merchants using the service.
So, you may think the drugstore where you bought condoms doesn't know where you live, but since your home address is on file with, say, Blockbuster, you might just get some junkmail from the drugstore in a few weeks offering you a deal to come down and by some more condoms.
If you've wife's on the pill, she might have some questions when the mailman visits that day.
Debit cards are for suckers.
Either the kind of sucker who believes all the advertising or the kind of sucker who can't manage credit and thus has such a poor credit history that they can't get a real credit card.
In ALL ways credit cards are equal or better than debit cards.
Meanwhile, if you wish to avoid people stealing your CC# online, get a card with Citibank or MBNA. Both of them have the 100% free service of generating single-use or "disposable" credit card accounts with configurable spending limits and expiration dates that can only be used by a single merchant. So if someone steals it after the legit vendor has charged it, it is no good. If the legit vendor turns out to be not so legit, they still can't charge more than you authorized.
I've used my MBNA "shopsafe" account for tens of thousands of dollars worth of charges online and never once had any fraud. Reportedly, neither MBNA nor citibank have ever experienced fraudulent charges on their disposable numbers, but that may just be advertising hype.
Dude, I don't know what they call it in China, but over here, that's what's known as a joke, son! A joke!
Your truly,
Fog Horn Leghorn
I have a lot of bosses who would give me a bad reference simply because I moved on.
> I find your statement very strange. I've never seen a single bad
> reference (I hear most people fear giving a bad references for
> legal reasons). If you've had multiple previous bosses trash
> you, maybe there is something wrong with you?
Nah, he's not the problem.
It just his taste in women, all his ex-wives are real bitches,
you can't blame him for that.
Digital restrictions are pointless. The whole reason the Internet exists is to enabling low-to-zero cost sharing of information. Trying to fight that with artificial restrictions is like trying to put the genie back into the bottle.
Instead of being so single-mindly focused on the bottle, Hollywoud ought to be asking the genie to grant their three wishes. In other words, they should be looking for ways to make money that leverage the zero-cost to share of information on the net rather than fight it.
I'm assuming you didn't upgrade to linux?
What nerfbrain modded that offtopic?
He made a valid point, if you "play nice" and don't break any of apple's rules, you won't be able to play the restricted files on non-apple-approved systems, like, for example, that little OS we hear about sometimes around here, called, "linux."
You aren't buying music from itunes, you are buying the ability to play some music some places some of the time.
That is all.
Your current employer is trying to walk all over you.
Do not allow them to.
Here's what is reasonable for a professional:
1) Two weeks notice
That's it. NOTHING more.
If you want to do more for them, then treat it like a brand new business arrangement, everything is on the table and you should not hesitate to take as much of it as you can.
That means, that under no circumstances, would a professional EVER give away their time for LESS than they were being compensated for before. To do so is to open yourself up to all kinds of continuing employment abuse. Do not, in any way, allow any sort of feelings of guilt or the like manipulate you into discounting your worth. Apparently they NEED you and in business that translates into paying MORE, not less.
Go to the RealRates forum for sage advice from experienced contractors on how to handle this former employer's needs without letting him take advantage of you.
PS, that your former boss would demand these things of you suggests that you've been mistreated all along and probably didn't realize it (I bet you were vastly underpaid and probably more than a little overworked). A stand-up guy would try to negotiate fairly, but he is clearly NOT doing that, instead is trying to manipulate you. That means the gloves are off and HE took them off, do not feel bad about playing hardball yourself, he started it after all.
You sir, are a very reasonable fellow.
Yeah, mine all disappeared too, just as I was applying them to 4 posts in this discussion...
Maybe the samples are not DRM - or am I not understanding somthing here?
Some of the samples are DRM'ed, some are not. Generally the previews of "real" (non-IMAX) movies have been DRM'ed about half the time, usually with the phone-home type. As if the studios want to track who's looking at the previews or something.
if firefox doesn't conform, submit a bug report, or patch, or a few bucks to one of the maintainers.
Is there an (easy to use) formal system for a regular schmoe on the net to "submit a few bucks" to the firefox devs?
in DRM'd WMV 10 format (mplayer plays them fine)
Could anyone elaborate on this?
Last I heard, mplayer could not do DRM'd WM9 files.
Will it play high-def WM9 files with DRM too?
How about the ones with "phone-home" DRM?
How about the ones on a DVD-ROM like this WMV-HD Italian Job?
They're not looking for a rational engagement using such trite things as facts;
Definition: faith - belief in something that is neither provable nor disprovable.
Seems like a lot of fundamentalists have decided to leave off the "nor disprovable" part in the interests of expediency.
I doubt Adaptec's shareholders are loosing sleep over some perturbed OpenBSD users.
Perhaps they should be, from reading the thread, there is easily over a million dollars worth of adaptec disk controllers running on OpenBSD systems.
It would appear that they are more savvy, and receive more training, but who knows?
The answer is, "it depends."
It depends A LOT on the individual security people at each site. Some are idiots. Some are competent. Anecdotally, the higher up the DSS management chain you go, the more likely they are to be idiots because they are further and further divorced from the technical details and thus prone to more and more "hand-waving" like "it only takes a simple script to do the firewalling" and "no open source software allowed on the internal network because some of the contributors are foreign nationals" (while closed-source software written entirely in Pakistan, China or Russia is fine as long as it comes through an American reseller who disclaims all liability for anything anyway).
A lot of the official security protocols are general guidelines that are meant to be interpreted locally by well trained, if not expert, security officers. When you have well trained or expert security officers, everything goes well. When you don't have them, it because a whole lot of sound and fury with little actual security.
Does that company still exist? If so, what is its name?
I've been talking about that kind of CC# based cross-referencing for years, but I've never been able to give people a concrete example. Having the name of one company that actually does that kind of work would be useful, if for no other reason to make people take my point more seriously.
They probably got your info from the phone company. They teleco's sell all the info they have on you to anyone with the bucks. I always get my phone number listed in the name of an imaginary roommate (because it is free versus paying for an unlisted number which is not really all that unlisted) and you would be surprised all the weird stuff my imaginary friends have received in the mail over the years.