well, let's pretend that the group responsible for the fraud was not politically affiliated. What if it was a group railing against the no-audit-trail voting machine? There's enough of them around. If I wanted to orchestrate a fraudulent election due to machine error/tampering, I'd have it elect the least qualified person in the world to office. That would amplify the effect. The goal would be to find someone falling way outside the statistically believable realm, and give it to them. Now, if I was really going for the gold, I'd have the same thing occur in different locations all around the country. Then we'd have a 'voting machine fraud epidemic' that would be hard to ignore or pass off as statistically acceptable deviation.
avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous)
funny. the daft but ravenous comment seems totally appropriate here.
which is actually quite a lofty goal, since to do that every font file will now have to bloat itself up to include either a full dictionary with animations or an AI with full language comprehension (My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer).
sorry not quite accurate. the message and solicitation call examples are good. they were forced upon you without your ability to deny them. With the downloaded ads, however, you requested to download those things to your phone. I haven't read the RFC lately, but you instructed your browser to download a web page. That may have included the instruction to download some content linked in that webpage including images, flash objects, java applets, etc. for the purpose of rendering those objects.
You issued a direct request to use your bandwidth to get those items. That's also why ad/flashblocking is perfectly valid. you're actively choosing which portions of a web page to request, and which ones not to request. That's the way html works. the power is yours. just don't try to blame the results on someone else.
"This study presents a figure of $2.2 million (in 1988 dollars) as the recommended value to use in benefit-cost analyses as the willingness-to-pay to avert a fatality...The GDP implicit price deflator increased about 18 percent from its average value in 1988 through 1993. Therefore, the 1988 figure of $2.2 million dollars wasincreased 18 percent to yield a 1994 figure of $2.6 million dollars."
It's a great demo choice. It's a game that came out at the start of the PC gaming generation. Started with CGA/pc-speaker, and has been upgraded several times with the technology over the period when PC hardware was making some of the biggest changes.
I also remember playing it through first as CGA/speaker at a friend's house. then I got my PC (was C-128 before that) and was able to drool over the ega version. But I remember actually being impressed with the pc speaker music. the sound effects were just annoying, but the cut scene music was great for PC-speaker. Later, I got a SB card, and same as the X-wing comment above, was amazed at the improvement. not too long after I got a hold of the VGA version, and was floored again. That, and it was a great game I wanted to play through each of those new times.
yep, mine too. my friend and I would, erm, 'share' games, and his smaller case would resonate at different notes than my larger case. We used to laugh about it.
The Republic of Texas had been declared, the US sent troops down to the disputed texas/mexico border to incite violence and set off a war so they could take Texas, California, and other areas as their own. I think Mexico looked at Texas the way China looks at Taiwan. At the end of the war, we paid Mexico a ton of money (which they needed to settle their huge government debt) and we got undisputed possession of a few new states. It was like a really long, drawn out negotiation over a sales contract, but the negotiation involved some deceit leading to thousands of people dying due to flying projectiles, and even more dying from disease, some disease settling in after people were hit by flying projectiles, but almost as much coming from poor food/sanitation/equipment, etc. Politics at its best.
xbox 360 is x86 based right? cell processor rips x86 a new one for the types of computations being performed by the AF. They could make the API as nice as they want, it'll still underperform.
right, this is the system working. They offered the game, which was bought new, and the content came with it. Then if bought used, the content was offered, and the new owner of the used game could make a second cost-benefit decision on whether the purchase was worth it. You say you would have decided it isn't, and that's a service sale that was not made. That provides incentive for the publisher to make the offer 'worth it'. Of course, they will need to be a bit careful of taking too much out of the full game, or it will devalue that end of the product, including possible resale value. Ideal for them would be a full new sale value with a resale value of zero, but a resale value of zero may actually hurt initial sale value to the consumer (as evidenced by all the venom in the posts above).
and in response: our government lab banned the use of flash drives for networked PCs a couple years ago. now, if I want to move data from a lab PC (or piece of equipment like an oscilloscope) to a networked PC, I use floppy. Sure, PC to PC could be done by burning a CD. But then I start to collect a nice pile of coasters. Most data consists of text files that zip nicely, and disk spanning still works like it used to. 7zip even makes a nice command line executable for running off the scopes. CD burning is also tediously slow, and repeated multi-sessioning to reduce the coaster count makes CD loading even slower. CDRW is an option, too, but it feels like those write even slower than floppies.
Basically, anything under 5MB that needs to move from off network device to networked device, I do by floppy disk. That covers 90% of my file transfers.
or, it's just a case of statistics being a bitch. given the number of updates that have to be pushed through the system, it's only a matter of time before the process lets a faulty one through. that it was so egregious is, well, unfortunate.
"counterfeiting and piracy have produced a wide range of effects on consumers, industry, government, and the economy as a whole, depending on the type of infringements involved and other factors...Consumers are particularly likely to experience negative effects when they purchase counterfeit products they believe are genuine...Some consumers may knowingly purchase counterfeits that are less expensive than the genuine goods and experience positive effects (consumer surplus), although the longer-term impact is unclear due to reduced incentives for research and development, among other factors"
yeah, seems like the study spent a lot of time on the things that the laws were intended to focus on: counterfeit products, and commercial counterfeiting operations.
Would be nice if it mentioned the specific difference between non-commercial and commercial counterfeiting/piracy.
sounds like it was his 'business' address. hence, it was a component of the office. 'guys, keep dialing the courtroom phone numbers so no business calls can get through' would be a similar case of deliberate interference of court business.
Now, 'hey guys, email the judge so he knows what we think' is different from 'hey guys, email the judge repeatedly so that the system goes down'. One is intent to disrupt courtroom activity, the other is an attempt in influence (or intimidate?) the court. I'm thinking the latter can still qualify as 'a bad thing' in some cases.
just curious, what version of PDF did this become default behavior? Sounds like it's time to roll PDF back a few versions. I can live without active PDF content and fillable forms that remember my previous text input.
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well, let's pretend that the group responsible for the fraud was not politically affiliated. What if it was a group railing against the no-audit-trail voting machine? There's enough of them around. If I wanted to orchestrate a fraudulent election due to machine error/tampering, I'd have it elect the least qualified person in the world to office. That would amplify the effect. The goal would be to find someone falling way outside the statistically believable realm, and give it to them. Now, if I was really going for the gold, I'd have the same thing occur in different locations all around the country. Then we'd have a 'voting machine fraud epidemic' that would be hard to ignore or pass off as statistically acceptable deviation.
psssstt.... we're talking about wireless phone providers, not ISPs.
avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous)
funny. the daft but ravenous comment seems totally appropriate here.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001280/
yes I cheated.
which is actually quite a lofty goal, since to do that every font file will now have to bloat itself up to include either a full dictionary with animations or an AI with full language comprehension (My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer).
sorry not quite accurate. the message and solicitation call examples are good. they were forced upon you without your ability to deny them. With the downloaded ads, however, you requested to download those things to your phone. I haven't read the RFC lately, but you instructed your browser to download a web page. That may have included the instruction to download some content linked in that webpage including images, flash objects, java applets, etc. for the purpose of rendering those objects.
You issued a direct request to use your bandwidth to get those items. That's also why ad/flashblocking is perfectly valid. you're actively choosing which portions of a web page to request, and which ones not to request. That's the way html works. the power is yours. just don't try to blame the results on someone else.
wow. loved reading that.
"This study presents a figure of $2.2 million (in 1988 dollars) as the recommended value to use in benefit-cost analyses as the willingness-to-pay to avert a fatality...The GDP implicit price deflator increased about 18 percent from its average value in 1988 through 1993. Therefore, the 1988 figure of $2.2 million dollars wasincreased 18 percent to yield a 1994 figure of $2.6 million dollars."
awesome.
It's a great demo choice. It's a game that came out at the start of the PC gaming generation. Started with CGA/pc-speaker, and has been upgraded several times with the technology over the period when PC hardware was making some of the biggest changes.
I also remember playing it through first as CGA/speaker at a friend's house. then I got my PC (was C-128 before that) and was able to drool over the ega version. But I remember actually being impressed with the pc speaker music. the sound effects were just annoying, but the cut scene music was great for PC-speaker. Later, I got a SB card, and same as the X-wing comment above, was amazed at the improvement. not too long after I got a hold of the VGA version, and was floored again. That, and it was a great game I wanted to play through each of those new times.
yep, mine too. my friend and I would, erm, 'share' games, and his smaller case would resonate at different notes than my larger case. We used to laugh about it.
lawns? you had lawns?
The Republic of Texas had been declared, the US sent troops down to the disputed texas/mexico border to incite violence and set off a war so they could take Texas, California, and other areas as their own. I think Mexico looked at Texas the way China looks at Taiwan. At the end of the war, we paid Mexico a ton of money (which they needed to settle their huge government debt) and we got undisputed possession of a few new states. It was like a really long, drawn out negotiation over a sales contract, but the negotiation involved some deceit leading to thousands of people dying due to flying projectiles, and even more dying from disease, some disease settling in after people were hit by flying projectiles, but almost as much coming from poor food/sanitation/equipment, etc. Politics at its best.
xbox 360 is x86 based right? cell processor rips x86 a new one for the types of computations being performed by the AF. They could make the API as nice as they want, it'll still underperform.
right, this is the system working. They offered the game, which was bought new, and the content came with it. Then if bought used, the content was offered, and the new owner of the used game could make a second cost-benefit decision on whether the purchase was worth it. You say you would have decided it isn't, and that's a service sale that was not made. That provides incentive for the publisher to make the offer 'worth it'. Of course, they will need to be a bit careful of taking too much out of the full game, or it will devalue that end of the product, including possible resale value. Ideal for them would be a full new sale value with a resale value of zero, but a resale value of zero may actually hurt initial sale value to the consumer (as evidenced by all the venom in the posts above).
a fair followup to show that mainly OpenDNS was just trying to fix what google/dell/others? broke:
http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/
and in response: our government lab banned the use of flash drives for networked PCs a couple years ago. now, if I want to move data from a lab PC (or piece of equipment like an oscilloscope) to a networked PC, I use floppy. Sure, PC to PC could be done by burning a CD. But then I start to collect a nice pile of coasters. Most data consists of text files that zip nicely, and disk spanning still works like it used to. 7zip even makes a nice command line executable for running off the scopes. CD burning is also tediously slow, and repeated multi-sessioning to reduce the coaster count makes CD loading even slower. CDRW is an option, too, but it feels like those write even slower than floppies.
Basically, anything under 5MB that needs to move from off network device to networked device, I do by floppy disk. That covers 90% of my file transfers.
I believe it's awarded for the past year's activity. not for the calendar year in which it is awarded.
or, it's just a case of statistics being a bitch. given the number of updates that have to be pushed through the system, it's only a matter of time before the process lets a faulty one through. that it was so egregious is, well, unfortunate.
From the GAO summary:
"counterfeiting and piracy have produced a wide range of effects on consumers, industry, government, and the economy as a whole, depending on the type of infringements involved and other factors...Consumers are particularly likely to experience negative effects when they purchase counterfeit products they believe are genuine...Some consumers may knowingly purchase counterfeits that are less expensive than the genuine goods and experience positive effects (consumer surplus), although the longer-term impact is unclear due to reduced incentives for research and development, among other factors"
yeah, seems like the study spent a lot of time on the things that the laws were intended to focus on: counterfeit products, and commercial counterfeiting operations.
Would be nice if it mentioned the specific difference between non-commercial and commercial counterfeiting/piracy.
really? I thought that time wasn't until later tonight.
500GB Seagate External hard drive, via Google shopping
http://www.google.com/products?q=500gb+external+hard+drive&scoring=p&cat=380&price1=25&brand=Seagate&show=dd
skipping the internals that pop up for some reason, Externals start at $59. Nice.
"so buying doesn't make economic sense."
and THAT is the crux of the matter.
sounds like it was his 'business' address. hence, it was a component of the office. 'guys, keep dialing the courtroom phone numbers so no business calls can get through' would be a similar case of deliberate interference of court business.
Now, 'hey guys, email the judge so he knows what we think' is different from 'hey guys, email the judge repeatedly so that the system goes down'. One is intent to disrupt courtroom activity, the other is an attempt in influence (or intimidate?) the court. I'm thinking the latter can still qualify as 'a bad thing' in some cases.
yeah, if anything it's a DDOS on port 25 or something.
obligatory XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/722/
The pattern of lights is all wrong!
just curious, what version of PDF did this become default behavior? Sounds like it's time to roll PDF back a few versions. I can live without active PDF content and fillable forms that remember my previous text input.