Implement a tariff based on pollution levels. Countries that have stricter rules and can produce things cleaner then get on equal cost-footing with massive-polluting countries that can produce things cheaper due to no (expensive) standards.
All proceeds go toward helping domestic companies reduce pollution in the form of interest bearing investments. For example, the US Govt will back a loan to my company for $100k at 1% interest to upgrade the office's insulation levels and install solar panels with the requirement that services and products be rendered only by domestic companies.
As much as I wish the free market could fix this, it can't. Free markets depend on the intelligence of its most basic users -- in our case, the general citizen consumer -- who cannot possibly have enough information to make the best choice.
The only challenge is coming up with what pollutants to base the standards on, and how to measure them fairly.
A late reply, but yes. Not all businesses can run paper-based, obviously, but ours can. Part of our nightly closing procedures are to print out a copy of the next day's task/appointment list. If it is a multi-day outage, we can operate entirely via paper communication -- they simply use paper forms and enter the data after the outage.
We use remote systems in our franchise stores (Django-based). Things run in Firefox. Even the touch screen PCs run Firefox full screen mode (and soon to be tablets). Makes deploying new versions a breeze.
Spammers aren't bright? So spam filtering is easy, right?
One (partial) solution is to have large providers provide alternate domains that you can register throw-away addresses. For instance, under Google Account settings, you might have the option to generate an address from cephelo@gmail.com and assign d785jd47fj@southeast.gmail.com and allow you to record a note that you intend to use d785jd47fj@southeast.gmail.com as your Amazon.com user ID.
As time progresses, Gmail can show you stats that, for example, 100% of e-mail on d785jd47fj@southeast.gmail.com is spam - "Do you want to delete this account?" and poof - the spam stops. Now that address automatically becomes a honey pot.
As long as they allow complete backups AND can install patches from the original developers, sure. This whole system of digital downloads requiring separate patches, limited backup abilities, etc is ridiculous. Look at the fate of the failed music services turning off their key servers... it's only a matter of time before that happens to a game service, too.
Easy solution to the expired problem -- just show a different warning on expiration for a pre-defined period of time (say, 3 months). "The site you are accessing, google.com, provides a security certificate that has recently expired. Do you wish to continue?"
Don't forget to have a RESTORE strategy in place, too, and one that can be executed by others. Redundant backups don't do any good if you don't know how to restore from them, and know approximately how long it will take to restore.
We set up a test system identical to a few of our servers and had non-IT people execute the restoration plan for the core applications/data our business needs. There were a few flaws in the plan but it was a GREAT learning tool.
For things like True, it's perfect. It's what RSS was designed to do. True is not a mailing list like users@httpd is -- it's a bulk mailing, plain and simple.
I wonder if the author even tried to contact Yahoo. Some of my messages were being flagged as spam, I contacted Yahoo, and got a very easy tip on making sure my headers are all correct on outbound mail. I'm no longer flagged as spam via Yahoo. That was a year or so ago, though.
I have to present new features at my company's annual meeting this fall. The company marketing directors were shocked when I stated I had no powerpoint to provide them. I was then told PowerPoint slides are mandatory, so I will be presenting from a white slide with our company name in black text.
Unfortunately, I think that will only work for one year.:(
We're running Django for basically our entire business systems. It's great. The only downside to Python is that there is a general lack of local developers (Tampa, Florida). Trying to find additional developers when you can't get relocation benefits approved is a royal PITA. (Anyone looking for a job in Tampa? =))
Periodically when you are working (long, long before you are looking for a new job) ask your supervisor if you can use a particular chunk of code as a code sample in your portfolio. Don't pick a mission-critical routine or something business-centric (those won't translate much into most job interviews anyway).
I've been doing that since my first programming dig and only been denied once.
Make sure you attribute the copyright and permission accordingly and keep the permission in a safe place (CYA).
I was donating fairly regularly to Mr. Obama for his quest for Presidency. I urge those that were doing the same to move their future donations from Mr. Obama and the DNC to the ACLU, which is vowing to fight FISA and the immunity in court.
There was also the use of the UN flag under the Gnome or Tango icon sets (forgot which one) as a "locale settings" icon. It angered non-UN countries/users. Despite it having nothing to do with the UN at all, they felt slighted.
This matches up to confusion of using GPL icons and graphics, too. If I reference a GPLd icon in a CSS file so that it renders in an HTML file that my Python script creaeted, does GPL apply to the whole chain? I've seen various posts online that claim one way and the other.
And now government bodies will spend even MORE money hiring IT companies because some government bodies are required by *law* to follow international standards. If the standards were passed that every piece of software make a MOO sound every 30 seconds, the bodies would spend millions making sure every piece of software mooed every 30 seconds.
Open standards were supposed to save money, but I can't see any software vendor saving money by implementing OOXML.
I will laugh when Microsoft itself can't get software certified to match OOXML's trainwreck standards.
A tree design that also happens to be one of the few sites in existence that intentionally break Firefox's middle click button (middle click to scroll).
Most OSes have a tool that you can tune the subpixel rendering. Windows has a Cleartype Tuning tool, for instance, that allows you to change it to a crisper rendering yet still retail the benefits of subpixel rendering -- or lets you pick what I would consider very blurry text (which is actually useful for users that use very large default text sizes).
Microsoft would rather sell SOME software than NO software. If even a small portion of stranded XP-less consumers (and businesses) switch to Linux/free software, Microsoft loses out on multiple fronts simultaneously: lost license fee for the OS, lost cost for Microsoft Office, games, and other software, and lost ad revenue from live.com search results -- what Linux browser sets the default search engine to live.com?
Clear it with management and do it on a limited, rolling basis.
We do it on a random sample of users with our web platform. All login requests get routed to a central domain ("shield.domain.com") which is non-SSL. That domain does a little basic load balancing to distribute requests to "https://foo.domain.com" or "https://bar.domain.com". We have a few extra domains set up, including "https://foo.domane.com" with a valid SSL certificate; "https://aa.domain.com" with an invalid certificate; and a non-SSL domain, "http://foodomain.com". All are nearly identical to our login page - one has a button out of alignment, throws some JavaScript errors, etc.
The pages alert the user to the deception on the first try. Second tries net a phone call. Third tries get a more detailed phone call with the office owner & account lockout.
It's been very effective, in fact, I've received several thank you notes so far from our users for teaching them about it. Not just dictating to them, but teaching them through first hand experience. They thank us because they can easily apply those same "does the address bar really match what it should?" technique to every other site out there.
And to get the same effect as phising, we send out periodic/random e-mails that read pretty official, but come from the wrong domain, or have a forged From: address, asking a user to visit a set up fraud website to enter personal information (not detailed, mostly just fishing for their user credentials).
The only thing I don't know yet is if users are learning because they are actually learning, or if it's a forced behavior just so they don't get a phone call from me. I'm not sure it matters why, just as long as it's happening.
Besides, there aren't "lightbulb" companies aside from a few smaller manufacturers. Most light bulb manufacturers do so under the umbrella of a huge, global brand like GE.
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Implement a tariff based on pollution levels. Countries that have stricter rules and can produce things cleaner then get on equal cost-footing with massive-polluting countries that can produce things cheaper due to no (expensive) standards.
All proceeds go toward helping domestic companies reduce pollution in the form of interest bearing investments. For example, the US Govt will back a loan to my company for $100k at 1% interest to upgrade the office's insulation levels and install solar panels with the requirement that services and products be rendered only by domestic companies.
As much as I wish the free market could fix this, it can't. Free markets depend on the intelligence of its most basic users -- in our case, the general citizen consumer -- who cannot possibly have enough information to make the best choice.
The only challenge is coming up with what pollutants to base the standards on, and how to measure them fairly.
A Slashdot reader missing entire sections of an article? Unpossible!
A late reply, but yes. Not all businesses can run paper-based, obviously, but ours can. Part of our nightly closing procedures are to print out a copy of the next day's task/appointment list. If it is a multi-day outage, we can operate entirely via paper communication -- they simply use paper forms and enter the data after the outage.
We use remote systems in our franchise stores (Django-based). Things run in Firefox. Even the touch screen PCs run Firefox full screen mode (and soon to be tablets). Makes deploying new versions a breeze.
Spammers aren't bright? So spam filtering is easy, right?
One (partial) solution is to have large providers provide alternate domains that you can register throw-away addresses. For instance, under Google Account settings, you might have the option to generate an address from cephelo@gmail.com and assign d785jd47fj@southeast.gmail.com and allow you to record a note that you intend to use d785jd47fj@southeast.gmail.com as your Amazon.com user ID.
As time progresses, Gmail can show you stats that, for example, 100% of e-mail on d785jd47fj@southeast.gmail.com is spam - "Do you want to delete this account?" and poof - the spam stops. Now that address automatically becomes a honey pot.
As long as they allow complete backups AND can install patches from the original developers, sure. This whole system of digital downloads requiring separate patches, limited backup abilities, etc is ridiculous. Look at the fate of the failed music services turning off their key servers... it's only a matter of time before that happens to a game service, too.
Easy solution to the expired problem -- just show a different warning on expiration for a pre-defined period of time (say, 3 months). "The site you are accessing, google.com, provides a security certificate that has recently expired. Do you wish to continue?"
Don't forget to have a RESTORE strategy in place, too, and one that can be executed by others. Redundant backups don't do any good if you don't know how to restore from them, and know approximately how long it will take to restore.
We set up a test system identical to a few of our servers and had non-IT people execute the restoration plan for the core applications/data our business needs. There were a few flaws in the plan but it was a GREAT learning tool.
For things like True, it's perfect. It's what RSS was designed to do. True is not a mailing list like users@httpd is -- it's a bulk mailing, plain and simple.
I wonder if the author even tried to contact Yahoo. Some of my messages were being flagged as spam, I contacted Yahoo, and got a very easy tip on making sure my headers are all correct on outbound mail. I'm no longer flagged as spam via Yahoo. That was a year or so ago, though.
I have to present new features at my company's annual meeting this fall. The company marketing directors were shocked when I stated I had no powerpoint to provide them. I was then told PowerPoint slides are mandatory, so I will be presenting from a white slide with our company name in black text.
Unfortunately, I think that will only work for one year. :(
Downtown - Harbour Island.
We're running Django for basically our entire business systems. It's great. The only downside to Python is that there is a general lack of local developers (Tampa, Florida). Trying to find additional developers when you can't get relocation benefits approved is a royal PITA. (Anyone looking for a job in Tampa? =))
We're very, very happy with Django.
Periodically when you are working (long, long before you are looking for a new job) ask your supervisor if you can use a particular chunk of code as a code sample in your portfolio. Don't pick a mission-critical routine or something business-centric (those won't translate much into most job interviews anyway).
I've been doing that since my first programming dig and only been denied once.
Make sure you attribute the copyright and permission accordingly and keep the permission in a safe place (CYA).
I was donating fairly regularly to Mr. Obama for his quest for Presidency. I urge those that were doing the same to move their future donations from Mr. Obama and the DNC to the ACLU, which is vowing to fight FISA and the immunity in court.
There was also the use of the UN flag under the Gnome or Tango icon sets (forgot which one) as a "locale settings" icon. It angered non-UN countries/users. Despite it having nothing to do with the UN at all, they felt slighted.
This matches up to confusion of using GPL icons and graphics, too. If I reference a GPLd icon in a CSS file so that it renders in an HTML file that my Python script creaeted, does GPL apply to the whole chain? I've seen various posts online that claim one way and the other.
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PayPal thanks you for your time and effort.
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And now government bodies will spend even MORE money hiring IT companies because some government bodies are required by *law* to follow international standards. If the standards were passed that every piece of software make a MOO sound every 30 seconds, the bodies would spend millions making sure every piece of software mooed every 30 seconds.
Open standards were supposed to save money, but I can't see any software vendor saving money by implementing OOXML.
I will laugh when Microsoft itself can't get software certified to match OOXML's trainwreck standards.
A tree design that also happens to be one of the few sites in existence that intentionally break Firefox's middle click button (middle click to scroll).
Most OSes have a tool that you can tune the subpixel rendering. Windows has a Cleartype Tuning tool, for instance, that allows you to change it to a crisper rendering yet still retail the benefits of subpixel rendering -- or lets you pick what I would consider very blurry text (which is actually useful for users that use very large default text sizes).
Microsoft would rather sell SOME software than NO software. If even a small portion of stranded XP-less consumers (and businesses) switch to Linux/free software, Microsoft loses out on multiple fronts simultaneously: lost license fee for the OS, lost cost for Microsoft Office, games, and other software, and lost ad revenue from live.com search results -- what Linux browser sets the default search engine to live.com?
Clear it with management and do it on a limited, rolling basis.
We do it on a random sample of users with our web platform. All login requests get routed to a central domain ("shield.domain.com") which is non-SSL. That domain does a little basic load balancing to distribute requests to "https://foo.domain.com" or "https://bar.domain.com". We have a few extra domains set up, including "https://foo.domane.com" with a valid SSL certificate; "https://aa.domain.com" with an invalid certificate; and a non-SSL domain, "http://foodomain.com". All are nearly identical to our login page - one has a button out of alignment, throws some JavaScript errors, etc.
The pages alert the user to the deception on the first try. Second tries net a phone call. Third tries get a more detailed phone call with the office owner & account lockout.
It's been very effective, in fact, I've received several thank you notes so far from our users for teaching them about it. Not just dictating to them, but teaching them through first hand experience. They thank us because they can easily apply those same "does the address bar really match what it should?" technique to every other site out there.
And to get the same effect as phising, we send out periodic/random e-mails that read pretty official, but come from the wrong domain, or have a forged From: address, asking a user to visit a set up fraud website to enter personal information (not detailed, mostly just fishing for their user credentials).
The only thing I don't know yet is if users are learning because they are actually learning, or if it's a forced behavior just so they don't get a phone call from me. I'm not sure it matters why, just as long as it's happening.
Flash does more than just paint - it (unfortunately) can upload files, attach to USB devices (webcams), etc.
Besides, there aren't "lightbulb" companies aside from a few smaller manufacturers. Most light bulb manufacturers do so under the umbrella of a huge, global brand like GE.