I found out from some local members of the Amish community that the reason they reject grid power is that it would put them in ongoing debt - which is very much against their religious beliefs. This is also partially why they reject the use of automobiles (some communities are more permissive and allow the hiring of vehicles to drive them long distances) - purchasing one can A) put you into debt which is against religious beliefs and B) goes against their beliefs of being good stewards of the earth (ongoing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution).
They don't reject use of things like some modern power tools, etc for use in their outside work for the 'English', especially when it comes to roofing contracts, building RVs, sheds, furniture, etc.
What's interesting to note - the debate is still ongoing in Amish communities about solar power panels and if they will be formally allowed - on the one hand it will give them electricity and whatnot in a 'clean' manner in compliance with their beliefs, on the other, there is objection to some of the materials used in those devices and how those materials are resourced.
I remember reading about flaws, exploits, etc that broke Tor anonymous browsing/data transfer as far back as 2005 or so. Some of these issues are still there because they honestly can't be fixed without a complete overhaul of how the entire thing is coded and works. Instead they have fixed what they could, and coded in mitigations for the rest.
It goes without saying though, that Tor, like many other things online, is, was, and always will be vulnerable to MITM attacks.
What's apparently happening here (didn't RTFA) according to the summary, is that they are looking to have non-fluff, etc content added specifically to the Gamestop versions of titles - meaning an actual part of the game is exclusive for their version (imagine playing a version of The Witcher for instance, that was missing an entire chapter from your version because it wasn't the Gamestop one).
Yes, but as in all of the Elder Scrolls titles, you'd almost never hit all of the quests in the game even in 5 or 6 playthroughs (because funny things happen, like questgiver NPCs dying to randomly wandering monster spawns or overly zealous town guards), so those 16 quests were basically useless fluff.
They tried that with Vista and pre-SP1 Win7. They had to nuke it because there was a serious vulnerability found in the stack that they couldn't fix, so they disabled the entire functionality for both OSes in a patch. Their "new solution" to this was Live Tiles, etc in Win8.
As for changing Aero, etc, you could do that too - although next to nobody wanted to pay the license fee to MS to create those things, so it lead to some developers creating ways to bypass the signing requirements.
In this day and age of ransoming extortionists, folding companies, and natural disasters, you better have the paranoid amount and never do fewer than 6 backups.
If Hulu is still providing their desktop app (and I think they may have a mobile one as well), I would suggest using that instead of their actual site - it runs on Air which funnily enough, runs worlds better than the actual browser Flash modules.
As for sorting - I agree, their current methods leaves much to be desired, as it seems their system only sorts by up to three "tags" applied by their employees, and many (I dare say most) of their movies are mis-tagged, at least for their streaming service. To be fair, Amazon isn't any better with their movie tagging.
It's surprising they are even following the bare minimum. Back in the dinosaur era of the 90's, when I worked for them (briefly), they got around most of such laws with impunity simply by changing where they stored customer databases.
If there was anything I ever picked up from my time at AT&T, it was that they are masters of shady law avoidance practices.
I concur, and they used their moderator staff to actually take care of wrongly filed torrents as well. They didn't just take a back-burner approach when it came to keeping everything organized the way it should be.
Most torrent sites out there you'll find shit like lame-assed Pokemon torrents filed under Sci-Fi or other such stupidity.
That is only true based on the local and state laws where you may happen to be. Where I am for instance, it doesn't matter if you're doing a complete rebuild of a property that already has hookups, all permits are treated as "new builds" for the purposes of connecting to sewer, water, electricity &/or natural gas.
They were that way, until telecoms lobbyists had it their way and got telecom providers/ISPs (who are often one and the same) delegated as "information services" with all of the accompanying lack of regulation forthwith.
They do just fine if they are large enough and hit them where it actually hurts - profit margins. Part of the problem is A) the fines are way too low and B) corporations are allowed to not only deduct them from the revenue end, but then profit from being fined by counting it as a loss towards their final tax bill for the year.
This needs to change - the fines need to hurt, and the fines need to come out of the back-end, aka from their declared profits AFTER all taxes are said and done.
This braindead attempt at an OS was the fault of a VP who was determined to make her mark at Microsoft.
She did alright, and is now firmly in the disaster zone category of "Carly Fiorina" when it comes to computing history. This is what happens when you promote people with zero technical know-how into these oversight positions where they are allowed to make decisions like this.
Not only that, but it's rather hilarious to hear Verizon and Comcast complain about Level 3, considering Level 3 is how -any- of their customers even contact servers and other infrastructure on the AT&T backbones, Europe, Canada, and South America for that matter. And by customers, I mean also their own various corporate campuses, some of which hilariously enough, lie right in the middle of AT&T territory.
Actually, yes, and with the gun crowd, they've been known to show up on front porches and ringing doorbells (and to do everything they can to run you out of town and out of your job depending on where you live in the US).
While I support the right to bear arms, I also do not think certain types of firearms (I am looking at you, AR-15s, AK-47s, etc) belong in the hands of your average citizen, as our fellow citizens have proven time and again that they can't be trusted to own and operate them responsibly.
I would be shocked if this wasn't intentional maneuvering to use the entire core of Yahoo as part of a tax write-off scheme to pay next to nothing on any profits they make from Yahoo Japan and the upcoming Alibaba IPO.
"We're valued at -$13bn, therefore Mr IRS, take a piss with your tax bill."
Honestly the entire thing is moot at this point but, from all of the comments I've read, nobody seems to have mentioned that his contribution to Prop 8 could be based on his personal religious beliefs.
If anything (and there is no signs of him doing so at this point), he could press on the Federal level a case of discrimination for violating his Civil Rights based on the religious aspect alone.
He would probably also win if there was even a slight whiff of him having been pressured into resigning because of this. Race, religion, gender = the big three when it comes to discrimination lawsuits and highest on the no-no scale of what companies can fire for/pressure over.
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I found out from some local members of the Amish community that the reason they reject grid power is that it would put them in ongoing debt - which is very much against their religious beliefs. This is also partially why they reject the use of automobiles (some communities are more permissive and allow the hiring of vehicles to drive them long distances) - purchasing one can A) put you into debt which is against religious beliefs and B) goes against their beliefs of being good stewards of the earth (ongoing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution).
They don't reject use of things like some modern power tools, etc for use in their outside work for the 'English', especially when it comes to roofing contracts, building RVs, sheds, furniture, etc.
What's interesting to note - the debate is still ongoing in Amish communities about solar power panels and if they will be formally allowed - on the one hand it will give them electricity and whatnot in a 'clean' manner in compliance with their beliefs, on the other, there is objection to some of the materials used in those devices and how those materials are resourced.
I remember reading about flaws, exploits, etc that broke Tor anonymous browsing/data transfer as far back as 2005 or so. Some of these issues are still there because they honestly can't be fixed without a complete overhaul of how the entire thing is coded and works. Instead they have fixed what they could, and coded in mitigations for the rest.
It goes without saying though, that Tor, like many other things online, is, was, and always will be vulnerable to MITM attacks.
What's apparently happening here (didn't RTFA) according to the summary, is that they are looking to have non-fluff, etc content added specifically to the Gamestop versions of titles - meaning an actual part of the game is exclusive for their version (imagine playing a version of The Witcher for instance, that was missing an entire chapter from your version because it wasn't the Gamestop one).
Yes, but as in all of the Elder Scrolls titles, you'd almost never hit all of the quests in the game even in 5 or 6 playthroughs (because funny things happen, like questgiver NPCs dying to randomly wandering monster spawns or overly zealous town guards), so those 16 quests were basically useless fluff.
They tried that with Vista and pre-SP1 Win7. They had to nuke it because there was a serious vulnerability found in the stack that they couldn't fix, so they disabled the entire functionality for both OSes in a patch. Their "new solution" to this was Live Tiles, etc in Win8.
As for changing Aero, etc, you could do that too - although next to nobody wanted to pay the license fee to MS to create those things, so it lead to some developers creating ways to bypass the signing requirements.
In this day and age of ransoming extortionists, folding companies, and natural disasters, you better have the paranoid amount and never do fewer than 6 backups.
They should have tracked down who was responsible, and had a baseball bat liberally applied to their kneecaps.
They capped total mouse frame movements to the 30 FPS of the console version. This is just lazy porting, again.
If Hulu is still providing their desktop app (and I think they may have a mobile one as well), I would suggest using that instead of their actual site - it runs on Air which funnily enough, runs worlds better than the actual browser Flash modules.
As for sorting - I agree, their current methods leaves much to be desired, as it seems their system only sorts by up to three "tags" applied by their employees, and many (I dare say most) of their movies are mis-tagged, at least for their streaming service. To be fair, Amazon isn't any better with their movie tagging.
Hell, it doesn't even stop government agencies OTHER than the IRS requiring you to use it on all kinds of forms and applications, either.
It's surprising they are even following the bare minimum. Back in the dinosaur era of the 90's, when I worked for them (briefly), they got around most of such laws with impunity simply by changing where they stored customer databases.
If there was anything I ever picked up from my time at AT&T, it was that they are masters of shady law avoidance practices.
I concur, and they used their moderator staff to actually take care of wrongly filed torrents as well. They didn't just take a back-burner approach when it came to keeping everything organized the way it should be.
Most torrent sites out there you'll find shit like lame-assed Pokemon torrents filed under Sci-Fi or other such stupidity.
That is only true based on the local and state laws where you may happen to be. Where I am for instance, it doesn't matter if you're doing a complete rebuild of a property that already has hookups, all permits are treated as "new builds" for the purposes of connecting to sewer, water, electricity &/or natural gas.
Basically anywhere along our southern coastlines - Florida, Louisiana, Texas, etc can and do grow sugar cane.
Interesting to note we have high tariffs in place on all imported sugar because those growers would be prices out of the market otherwise.
They were that way, until telecoms lobbyists had it their way and got telecom providers/ISPs (who are often one and the same) delegated as "information services" with all of the accompanying lack of regulation forthwith.
They do just fine if they are large enough and hit them where it actually hurts - profit margins. Part of the problem is A) the fines are way too low and B) corporations are allowed to not only deduct them from the revenue end, but then profit from being fined by counting it as a loss towards their final tax bill for the year.
This needs to change - the fines need to hurt, and the fines need to come out of the back-end, aka from their declared profits AFTER all taxes are said and done.
XP-64? Egads! WHY?
This braindead attempt at an OS was the fault of a VP who was determined to make her mark at Microsoft.
She did alright, and is now firmly in the disaster zone category of "Carly Fiorina" when it comes to computing history. This is what happens when you promote people with zero technical know-how into these oversight positions where they are allowed to make decisions like this.
Not only that, but it's rather hilarious to hear Verizon and Comcast complain about Level 3, considering Level 3 is how -any- of their customers even contact servers and other infrastructure on the AT&T backbones, Europe, Canada, and South America for that matter. And by customers, I mean also their own various corporate campuses, some of which hilariously enough, lie right in the middle of AT&T territory.
Actually, yes, and with the gun crowd, they've been known to show up on front porches and ringing doorbells (and to do everything they can to run you out of town and out of your job depending on where you live in the US).
While I support the right to bear arms, I also do not think certain types of firearms (I am looking at you, AR-15s, AK-47s, etc) belong in the hands of your average citizen, as our fellow citizens have proven time and again that they can't be trusted to own and operate them responsibly.
I would be shocked if this wasn't intentional maneuvering to use the entire core of Yahoo as part of a tax write-off scheme to pay next to nothing on any profits they make from Yahoo Japan and the upcoming Alibaba IPO.
"We're valued at -$13bn, therefore Mr IRS, take a piss with your tax bill."
If you are using GOTOs and it isn't for a BASIC program running on old hardware (or in an emulator) for shits and giggles, yes, it's bad.
GOTOs are how you end up with endless loops (and other nasties). Do you want endless loops? Because that is how you get them.
Oh, it could, if they hadn't oversubscribed their lines by almost 800% for the last 20 years.
Honestly the entire thing is moot at this point but, from all of the comments I've read, nobody seems to have mentioned that his contribution to Prop 8 could be based on his personal religious beliefs.
If anything (and there is no signs of him doing so at this point), he could press on the Federal level a case of discrimination for violating his Civil Rights based on the religious aspect alone.
He would probably also win if there was even a slight whiff of him having been pressured into resigning because of this. Race, religion, gender = the big three when it comes to discrimination lawsuits and highest on the no-no scale of what companies can fire for/pressure over.
Phoenix needs readjusted - there are massive water issues, and frankly, the size of that city isn't sustainable for the area it is in.