Broccoli: $1.69/head Shrimp: $7.99/lb Hamburger: $2.39/lb Salad: $1.99/bag for Iceberg $3+/bag for anything with actual taste or nutrients Various Beef cuts: $1.79/lb up to $9.99/lb Fresh Chicken cuts: $1.29/lb to $2.99/lb Frozen Boneless/Skinless Chicken Breasts: 3lb bag $10 Tomatoes: $1.69/lb, Organic not even an option Bananas: $.69/lb Oranges: 3/$2 Fresh Fish: $4.99/lb for the cheapest farm-raised stuff up to $14/lb for some of the wild-caught Frozen farm-raised Fish: Averages $7.99 per 2lb bag for things like Tilapia, $14.99 2lb bag for salmon. Mushrooms: $2.99 per 12/oz package Carrots: $2.99 per 1lb bag (Organic $3.99 for the same 1b) Bread: $3.99/loaf is the average Milk: $3.49 per half gallon of Organic 2% or $3.89 per gallon for "regular" 2%. The local dairies only sell to the grocery stores unless you want goat milk. Eggs: $1.49/dozen. Free-range $3/dozen. From local farms: $2.50/dozen. Gasoline: $3.53/gallon currently for 87 Octane (and all of that gasoline is produced and refined in this county - the owner of the refinery is actually quite gleeful at being able to charge us basically what he wants, since he lives in NYC and most of the stations in the entire county are either owned by him outright or sell his gasoline - he chased BP and another company out of town, Shell has a single station, and Exxon-Mobil, Texaco or Chevron didn't even get a foothold).
As far as home prices go, I've seem them go anywhere from $35k up to $2.6 million, depending upon size, condition and location. Homes in the Historic District tend to be on the higher end, as do those that come with any significant amount of land. Of course the homes in the Historic District are mostly Victorians and Colonials, and were suitably built during those actual timeframes. The few homes remaining from the times of the French and Indian Wars are mostly maintained as museums by the Historical Society or belong to law firms.
Furs, Timber, Oil and Natural Gas fueled any and all growth of wealth in this area, and you can definitely tell the old oil/timber families from the transplants or common workers as far as living conditions are concerned.
It's why I dropped out of "corporate" IT and moved into physical security solutions (providing actual guards, communications, cameras, etc). I got tired of people assuming that I had to drop whatever was on my work schedule to make their precious iTHINGY WORK RIGHT NAO, AND I MEAN NAO! With no thanks, appreciation, consideration, etc.
So, I just said, "no more", and left. Now I have much fewer headaches, very little work related stress, and I don't have to put up with any numbnuts whining about why their camera phone is banned from the premises (because at the types of companies I do contract work for, anything capable of taking photographs or video is banned, and their employees know better than to even ask).
Pardon my French, but FUCK THOSE PEOPLE WITH A BROKEN BOTTLE, IN THE ASS.
Because the deciding vote wouldn't have mattered at that point (it rarely does, because most elections are rigged to avoid any sort of tie vote situation). Hitler was the only person running after he and his underlings had eliminated all of the competition. Look up "Night of the Long Knives." So, personally, the 2nd option of feeling no moral compunction at putting a bullet in his head is the obvious and correct stance to take.
It's perfectly valid to attack her for being a hypocrite of the first magnitude. Actions speak louder than words, and her actions sure did speak and told us all what a load of crap she was feeding everyone.
From what I've read online, and in author's notes in books, Lester Del Ray is the lone exception in the entire industry. They even talk about him on the Baen Books site, and how fortunate they were to have worked with him, compared to the endless sea of worthless publishers/editors.
Tell me again why an eBook needs anything more than A) an author B) an editor (editors can do layout) C) distributor? Well, granted, some books may need illustrations and some people may fuss about making an un-needed "cover".
Typesetters though? For an eBook? REALLY? Because, I honestly thought that every single text editor out there allows you to, you know, change your own font and font size/style. Even Notepad.
It wasn't the unions who did it, it was a Republican sponsored bill passed in 2006 and mentioned by an above poster in one of the threads. Try reading.
How difficult is it to set a stable extensions API, make extension developers aware of it, and then making the browser get out of the way?
Just because the browser number changes, doesn't mean the extension should stop working because of an arbitrary string value check performed by the browser. This is what currently happens, or we wouldn't be able to edit one of the files inside of the extension to change the version compatibility number, repack it, and have the extension work just fine on the updated browser.
When you get to major revisions of the extensions API, that is when you temporarily "break" extensions while having informed the developer community well in advance what is going on so that they can make real changes to the way the extension interacts with the browser.
This would put an end to so much user and extension developer frustration.
This one isn't. The district and it's rules are directly controlled by the city. Individual property owners have no say at all over rules concerning allowed meter installations, etc. It's kept this way for a reason, because many of these buildings date back to the Revolutionary War or the French and Indian Wars.
If this company is in the USA, then yes, they are breaking laws by leaving the proverbial front-door wide open to credit card information.
Many states require at the minimum, under law, that if they've been notified of this very type of thing, that they have to publicly report the incident and rectify the situation. Hawaii has had such a law since 2007. Washington State has something similar since July of 2010, and even goes so far as to say that the vendor, business, or processor in question, must also reissue new cards, pay expenses including attorney's fees, etc. resulting from any such "breach".
If it really comes down to it, report it to US-CERT, the BBB, etc in the USA. Check your local laws and any other applicable federal laws as well.
The closest thing I know of is the Chromebook. Might be along the lines of what you're looking for. Costs $299 for the Acer model (11.6"), with another Acer model available for $399 and two Samsung models (12.1") coming soon. It has some nice features, like 16 GB SSD drive, 2 GB DDR3 RAM, multi-card reader for expanded storage, etc. Uses an Intel Atom N570 @ 1.66GHz and Intel GMA 3150 GPU @ 1366 x 768. Has 2 USB and one HDMI port. 802.11 a/b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth for connectivity.
1) Show me one instance where the defendants were informed BEFORE the seizure and transfer of the domains in question. I dare you. I'll be waiting the next 100 years or more as well, because it didn't happen. The entire thing relies on ICE seizing the domains without the ability of the defendants to prevent it from happening. Which you know, would happen if they were actually informed beforehand.
2) Doesn't change the fact that they had no business interfering with a foreign entity outside of their jurisdiction of rule to start with. If the groups like Chanel had a complaint, they should take it to the jurisdiction in question. How do you suppose the defendants are able to respond without the knowledge that their domains were pre-emptively seized and transferred to a 3rd party until AFTER the fact?
3) If you think a judge can't use law enforcement in a civil case, you've obviously never participated in any civil cases. Do you suppose the judge twinkles his fingers and the rulings magically enforce themselves, that court requests magically whisk their way about?
4) The defendants were told formally (if at all), after the fact. They didn't bother defending their domains because their domains had already been seized and transferred, prior to any court ruling one way or the other. Good luck getting your property back once the government already took it and gave it to a 3rd party.
Which ones support custom firmware, non-gimped RAM, IPv6, are STABLE, have GigE ports, and have true dual-band G/N support? I am price-constrained as well, as I don't want to spend $300 on a freaking home router, and seeing the brick and mortar prices going $150 or higher where I live is pushing it also.
I've always used the WRTG series, but mine is also feeling it's age and I'd like to update it and retire the WRTG to secondary AP support for PS3/XBox/Wii connectivity.
This help is greatly appreciated, and a short list of 5 or so from various manufacturers would be nice. TYIA.
That's the point I have been mulling over as well ever since this mess came to light. There's only two reasons why this software would log the content of text message/email/search. Either a government agency of some sort requested this feature (or outright demanded it), or the folks behind CarrierIQ built in this ability so that carriers could use this info for their targeted advertising platforms.
If it's the former reason, this fits in line with PATRIOT-Act provisions, and if it's the latter, then quite simply, CarrierIQ broke the law, violating both the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the various laws based on wiretapping.
In this first case I mentioned, they still might get into trouble, if those parts of the software were enabled by default, as it was recently decided in some US Circuit Court case that the government is required to obtain a warrant before they may obtain access to such data as this CarrierIQ software provides.
I guess we'll find out once the inevitable lawsuits spring up.
Google takes suggestions on how to improve it's search. Try suggesting that. It actually seems to be a very useful function, and the more I remember about using it on Altavista, the more I wonder why Google doesn't have it.
Very useful for doing say, "GPU comparisons" or something and not just ending up with the top 5000 sites trying to sell you computer parts with an actual review link buried on page 28.
1) I doubt a single defendant was informed. After all, these sites were almost entirely registered and owned by people outside of the USA.
2) They get to respond, AFTER the domain has already been seized and given to someone else with no compensation.
3) Seeing as how this is a Civil Case, your first point should have been not only true, but stressed by the judge. It was neither, and the domain transfer damned sure shouldn't have been allowed until AFTER the case was completely resolved.
4) Showing up, telling the court, etc, all depends upon them having been notified to begin with. Which in these cases, they are NOT until after ICE has made it's seizure announcements and the domains have already been handed off to someone else.
I find it strange more people aren't outraged at the lack of due process or due compensation, even when it comes to sites with "questionable" activity.
Zynga and tons of other companies, like the mentioned Activision-Blizzard do such analysis.
Act-Blizz must have hated me. I was either flying around in circles in Northrend killing rare spawns or sitting idle in Stormwind doing absolutely nothing. I didn't do their stupid punch the monkey crap. I liked the "Plants vs Zombies" implementation, until I figured out how to never lose at it, I am quite sure they got nice click data out of me on that one, as well as some rather colorful chat logs.
Ubisoft games were rather well-known for burning up drives even earlier than that, by using Starforce. I refused to purchase any more Ubisoft games after Starforce 3 destroyed a brand new DVD burner I had just installed. The stupid DRM was programmed to attempt to hook itself into the firmware of the drive, and disable the ability to burn discs. This essentially bricked the things.
These things are about as useful as tits on a lawnmower. The meters can't even record accurate use if your house wiring is over 20 years old. The power company where I live is having fits because not a single one of the smart meters they installed in the historic district of the town where I live (and I live in this district) is recording accurate consumption. They've found meters read 1kWh for an entire week. In an apartment building with 6 apartments. To be fair, the wiring is about ancient in these buildings. Some of it has cloth coverings. The fuse boxes in most of them still use the old "stick" fuses made out of waxed paper, etc, etc, etc. Breaker boxes? WHO NEEDS THOSE:P
Also of note: the historic district rules prevent people like the power company from installing more than a single meter per standing structure. This makes tenants very happy, as that means each and every single apartment in the district is "utilities included" when it comes to rent.
Nah, what that is, is the PR Department (or hired PR firm) of the firms in question (the ones mentioned in the articles) assign the equivalent of interns to trawl such websites for articles about their company, and to "upvote" or post "positive" messages in support of the company (and do the opposite against negative messages).
It has little to do with the Marketing Department (usually). We normally refer to those people as "astroturfers" or "shills" when being polite. I normally refer to them as "lying assmonkeys".
In his defense, cryptographers from ye olden days were quite fond of using a form of encryption based on words, phrases, and sentences from certain published books. If you didn't know which particular edition of that book it was, which monk had made the edition, AND have a copy of it (mind you, this was back when most books were still hand-written by monks), you weren't breaking the encryption. Some of the encryption even referenced the particular illuminations that particular monk made in that particular edition of the published text.
There might be 10 copies of the book world-wide, including second or third editions, and only two of those books might have been made by the same monk.
Apparently some of those encrypted texts are STILL not broken today (to be fair, some will never be solved because no editions still exist to decrypt with).
Kind of amazing that some of that old stuff might never be solved, yet all of our modern encryption schemes only require sufficient computational time using computing clusters. I almost wonder how we, in the modern age, would ever decrypt things if Sandskrit or similar languages were still in wide use and the methods of encryption I mentioned were still popular.
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Some prices where I live:
Broccoli: $1.69/head
Shrimp: $7.99/lb
Hamburger: $2.39/lb
Salad: $1.99/bag for Iceberg $3+/bag for anything with actual taste or nutrients
Various Beef cuts: $1.79/lb up to $9.99/lb
Fresh Chicken cuts: $1.29/lb to $2.99/lb
Frozen Boneless/Skinless Chicken Breasts: 3lb bag $10
Tomatoes: $1.69/lb, Organic not even an option
Bananas: $.69/lb
Oranges: 3/$2
Fresh Fish: $4.99/lb for the cheapest farm-raised stuff up to $14/lb for some of the wild-caught
Frozen farm-raised Fish: Averages $7.99 per 2lb bag for things like Tilapia, $14.99 2lb bag for salmon.
Mushrooms: $2.99 per 12/oz package
Carrots: $2.99 per 1lb bag (Organic $3.99 for the same 1b)
Bread: $3.99/loaf is the average
Milk: $3.49 per half gallon of Organic 2% or $3.89 per gallon for "regular" 2%. The local dairies only sell to the grocery stores unless you want goat milk.
Eggs: $1.49/dozen. Free-range $3/dozen. From local farms: $2.50/dozen.
Gasoline: $3.53/gallon currently for 87 Octane (and all of that gasoline is produced and refined in this county - the owner of the refinery is actually quite gleeful at being able to charge us basically what he wants, since he lives in NYC and most of the stations in the entire county are either owned by him outright or sell his gasoline - he chased BP and another company out of town, Shell has a single station, and Exxon-Mobil, Texaco or Chevron didn't even get a foothold).
As far as home prices go, I've seem them go anywhere from $35k up to $2.6 million, depending upon size, condition and location. Homes in the Historic District tend to be on the higher end, as do those that come with any significant amount of land. Of course the homes in the Historic District are mostly Victorians and Colonials, and were suitably built during those actual timeframes. The few homes remaining from the times of the French and Indian Wars are mostly maintained as museums by the Historical Society or belong to law firms.
Furs, Timber, Oil and Natural Gas fueled any and all growth of wealth in this area, and you can definitely tell the old oil/timber families from the transplants or common workers as far as living conditions are concerned.
This, 100% THIS.
It's why I dropped out of "corporate" IT and moved into physical security solutions (providing actual guards, communications, cameras, etc). I got tired of people assuming that I had to drop whatever was on my work schedule to make their precious iTHINGY WORK RIGHT NAO, AND I MEAN NAO! With no thanks, appreciation, consideration, etc.
So, I just said, "no more", and left. Now I have much fewer headaches, very little work related stress, and I don't have to put up with any numbnuts whining about why their camera phone is banned from the premises (because at the types of companies I do contract work for, anything capable of taking photographs or video is banned, and their employees know better than to even ask).
Pardon my French, but FUCK THOSE PEOPLE WITH A BROKEN BOTTLE, IN THE ASS.
Because the deciding vote wouldn't have mattered at that point (it rarely does, because most elections are rigged to avoid any sort of tie vote situation). Hitler was the only person running after he and his underlings had eliminated all of the competition. Look up "Night of the Long Knives." So, personally, the 2nd option of feeling no moral compunction at putting a bullet in his head is the obvious and correct stance to take.
It's perfectly valid to attack her for being a hypocrite of the first magnitude. Actions speak louder than words, and her actions sure did speak and told us all what a load of crap she was feeding everyone.
From what I've read online, and in author's notes in books, Lester Del Ray is the lone exception in the entire industry. They even talk about him on the Baen Books site, and how fortunate they were to have worked with him, compared to the endless sea of worthless publishers/editors.
Tell me again why an eBook needs anything more than A) an author B) an editor (editors can do layout) C) distributor? Well, granted, some books may need illustrations and some people may fuss about making an un-needed "cover".
Typesetters though? For an eBook? REALLY? Because, I honestly thought that every single text editor out there allows you to, you know, change your own font and font size/style. Even Notepad.
By making it enabled and mandatory by default, and giving no option to bypass or disable using it.
It wasn't the unions who did it, it was a Republican sponsored bill passed in 2006 and mentioned by an above poster in one of the threads. Try reading.
How difficult is it to set a stable extensions API, make extension developers aware of it, and then making the browser get out of the way?
Just because the browser number changes, doesn't mean the extension should stop working because of an arbitrary string value check performed by the browser. This is what currently happens, or we wouldn't be able to edit one of the files inside of the extension to change the version compatibility number, repack it, and have the extension work just fine on the updated browser.
When you get to major revisions of the extensions API, that is when you temporarily "break" extensions while having informed the developer community well in advance what is going on so that they can make real changes to the way the extension interacts with the browser.
This would put an end to so much user and extension developer frustration.
This one isn't. The district and it's rules are directly controlled by the city. Individual property owners have no say at all over rules concerning allowed meter installations, etc. It's kept this way for a reason, because many of these buildings date back to the Revolutionary War or the French and Indian Wars.
If this company is in the USA, then yes, they are breaking laws by leaving the proverbial front-door wide open to credit card information.
Many states require at the minimum, under law, that if they've been notified of this very type of thing, that they have to publicly report the incident and rectify the situation. Hawaii has had such a law since 2007. Washington State has something similar since July of 2010, and even goes so far as to say that the vendor, business, or processor in question, must also reissue new cards, pay expenses including attorney's fees, etc. resulting from any such "breach".
If it really comes down to it, report it to US-CERT, the BBB, etc in the USA. Check your local laws and any other applicable federal laws as well.
The closest thing I know of is the Chromebook. Might be along the lines of what you're looking for. Costs $299 for the Acer model (11.6"), with another Acer model available for $399 and two Samsung models (12.1") coming soon. It has some nice features, like 16 GB SSD drive, 2 GB DDR3 RAM, multi-card reader for expanded storage, etc. Uses an Intel Atom N570 @ 1.66GHz and Intel GMA 3150 GPU @ 1366 x 768. Has 2 USB and one HDMI port. 802.11 a/b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth for connectivity.
Looks like a nifty little machine.
1) Show me one instance where the defendants were informed BEFORE the seizure and transfer of the domains in question. I dare you. I'll be waiting the next 100 years or more as well, because it didn't happen. The entire thing relies on ICE seizing the domains without the ability of the defendants to prevent it from happening. Which you know, would happen if they were actually informed beforehand.
2) Doesn't change the fact that they had no business interfering with a foreign entity outside of their jurisdiction of rule to start with. If the groups like Chanel had a complaint, they should take it to the jurisdiction in question. How do you suppose the defendants are able to respond without the knowledge that their domains were pre-emptively seized and transferred to a 3rd party until AFTER the fact?
3) If you think a judge can't use law enforcement in a civil case, you've obviously never participated in any civil cases. Do you suppose the judge twinkles his fingers and the rulings magically enforce themselves, that court requests magically whisk their way about?
4) The defendants were told formally (if at all), after the fact. They didn't bother defending their domains because their domains had already been seized and transferred, prior to any court ruling one way or the other. Good luck getting your property back once the government already took it and gave it to a 3rd party.
Which ones support custom firmware, non-gimped RAM, IPv6, are STABLE, have GigE ports, and have true dual-band G/N support? I am price-constrained as well, as I don't want to spend $300 on a freaking home router, and seeing the brick and mortar prices going $150 or higher where I live is pushing it also.
I've always used the WRTG series, but mine is also feeling it's age and I'd like to update it and retire the WRTG to secondary AP support for PS3/XBox/Wii connectivity.
This help is greatly appreciated, and a short list of 5 or so from various manufacturers would be nice. TYIA.
Sure you will. It will just be from several mutli-core CPUs per machine and not just from a single-socketed CPU.
That's the point I have been mulling over as well ever since this mess came to light. There's only two reasons why this software would log the content of text message/email/search. Either a government agency of some sort requested this feature (or outright demanded it), or the folks behind CarrierIQ built in this ability so that carriers could use this info for their targeted advertising platforms.
If it's the former reason, this fits in line with PATRIOT-Act provisions, and if it's the latter, then quite simply, CarrierIQ broke the law, violating both the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the various laws based on wiretapping.
In this first case I mentioned, they still might get into trouble, if those parts of the software were enabled by default, as it was recently decided in some US Circuit Court case that the government is required to obtain a warrant before they may obtain access to such data as this CarrierIQ software provides.
I guess we'll find out once the inevitable lawsuits spring up.
Google takes suggestions on how to improve it's search. Try suggesting that. It actually seems to be a very useful function, and the more I remember about using it on Altavista, the more I wonder why Google doesn't have it.
Very useful for doing say, "GPU comparisons" or something and not just ending up with the top 5000 sites trying to sell you computer parts with an actual review link buried on page 28.
1) I doubt a single defendant was informed. After all, these sites were almost entirely registered and owned by people outside of the USA.
2) They get to respond, AFTER the domain has already been seized and given to someone else with no compensation.
3) Seeing as how this is a Civil Case, your first point should have been not only true, but stressed by the judge. It was neither, and the domain transfer damned sure shouldn't have been allowed until AFTER the case was completely resolved.
4) Showing up, telling the court, etc, all depends upon them having been notified to begin with. Which in these cases, they are NOT until after ICE has made it's seizure announcements and the domains have already been handed off to someone else.
I find it strange more people aren't outraged at the lack of due process or due compensation, even when it comes to sites with "questionable" activity.
Zynga and tons of other companies, like the mentioned Activision-Blizzard do such analysis.
Act-Blizz must have hated me. I was either flying around in circles in Northrend killing rare spawns or sitting idle in Stormwind doing absolutely nothing. I didn't do their stupid punch the monkey crap. I liked the "Plants vs Zombies" implementation, until I figured out how to never lose at it, I am quite sure they got nice click data out of me on that one, as well as some rather colorful chat logs.
Ubisoft games were rather well-known for burning up drives even earlier than that, by using Starforce. I refused to purchase any more Ubisoft games after Starforce 3 destroyed a brand new DVD burner I had just installed. The stupid DRM was programmed to attempt to hook itself into the firmware of the drive, and disable the ability to burn discs. This essentially bricked the things.
They are tracking per customer, and they are also doing it with SSD and USB Flash drives, albeit some of those are 2-4 per customer.
These things are about as useful as tits on a lawnmower. The meters can't even record accurate use if your house wiring is over 20 years old. The power company where I live is having fits because not a single one of the smart meters they installed in the historic district of the town where I live (and I live in this district) is recording accurate consumption. They've found meters read 1kWh for an entire week. In an apartment building with 6 apartments. To be fair, the wiring is about ancient in these buildings. Some of it has cloth coverings. The fuse boxes in most of them still use the old "stick" fuses made out of waxed paper, etc, etc, etc. Breaker boxes? WHO NEEDS THOSE :P
Also of note: the historic district rules prevent people like the power company from installing more than a single meter per standing structure. This makes tenants very happy, as that means each and every single apartment in the district is "utilities included" when it comes to rent.
Nah, what that is, is the PR Department (or hired PR firm) of the firms in question (the ones mentioned in the articles) assign the equivalent of interns to trawl such websites for articles about their company, and to "upvote" or post "positive" messages in support of the company (and do the opposite against negative messages).
It has little to do with the Marketing Department (usually). We normally refer to those people as "astroturfers" or "shills" when being polite. I normally refer to them as "lying assmonkeys".
I dunno. My name isn't Kenneth.
In his defense, cryptographers from ye olden days were quite fond of using a form of encryption based on words, phrases, and sentences from certain published books. If you didn't know which particular edition of that book it was, which monk had made the edition, AND have a copy of it (mind you, this was back when most books were still hand-written by monks), you weren't breaking the encryption. Some of the encryption even referenced the particular illuminations that particular monk made in that particular edition of the published text.
There might be 10 copies of the book world-wide, including second or third editions, and only two of those books might have been made by the same monk.
Apparently some of those encrypted texts are STILL not broken today (to be fair, some will never be solved because no editions still exist to decrypt with).
Kind of amazing that some of that old stuff might never be solved, yet all of our modern encryption schemes only require sufficient computational time using computing clusters. I almost wonder how we, in the modern age, would ever decrypt things if Sandskrit or similar languages were still in wide use and the methods of encryption I mentioned were still popular.