I guess it's just me, or the local market I live in, but I can get 50/5 fiber service for $80/month now. WiMAX services in the area offer up to 150/150
Gee thanks for all that info. Too bad you were so much more interested in talking about yourself than in actually passing any useful information along that you left out where your "local market" actually is.
The idea is to have a set of false, made up answers that you *always* use to the same old security, so you don't forget them. No one is going to find that stuff on line because it's not affiliated with you except in your imagination.
So it isn't quite publicly available, but it is available to anyone with at least administrative access to the sites you've signed up on and used the same information (and chances are that info gets stored in a cleartext file or at best a database). So if you use the same info at all websites it reduces your security to that of the least secure website you've given the info to.
I can't say that nationalizing would make it cheaper, but I can't imagine it possibly getting any worse.
I can and it isn't hard.
Any nationalization bill will inevitably be loaded with corporate welfare under the false rubric of "capitalism" or "free markets." Kind of the way the bill that established "Medicare Part D" actually prevented the government from negotiating the price of medicine that it purchased for the program's use (compared to the VA which is allowed to negotiate, Medicare pays more than 2x as much for equivalent medicine).
I don't get this obsession with "standby" power draw... My computer and display and TV and DVD player already draw zero watts when off, thanks to the magic of the switch on the power strip.
Its not so easy for all of us. My Dell 24" monitor frequently "crashes" if I use the powerstrip to turn it off. It still mostly works (usually it displays the video signal) but all of the user interface things (brightness control, switching inputs, power button, etc) are dead.
The infamous Broadcast Flag--the only element of DRM to have ever loomed over broadcast television--is dead and buried. Besides, none of the DTV converters currently available have any DRM-compliance built in.
Not quite "dead and buried" - turns out that some broadcasters are using it anyway and some tuners are obeying it anyway. In fact, our buddy Microsoft is lead the charge.
So, while the BF remains voluntary, that doesn't help the poor schmucks who get stuck with a system that has "voluntarily" given away their option to ignore the BF.
Unfortunately, patients are not trusted with medical records. Any possibility of alteration or forgery cannot be permitted, because this would invalidate the concept of those records being reliable.
Easily solved with a system of digital signatures that enforce an audit trail.
And how does you keeping records help with any of those problems?
Lets take that one step further - if these people know that the system is keeping records on them, then they probably aren't even going to come in for any treatment until its too late to help them any more.
It's all fine and dandy to argue that putting control of the system in the hands of benevolent professionals will end all kinds of bad behaviour, but the real world is never so simple. You take control away from people and they will do their utmost to assert it by any means they can, even if it is ultimately self-destructive - especially people for whom there is not much else left in their lives.
So, a good game is enjoyable no matter how much violence it contains. Why, then, do certain game publishers keep pushing the limits of violent content?
Variety. You could say the same thing about romcoms - a good romcom is enjoyable despite not containing any violence, but that doesn't mean that people only want to watch romcoms.
Gays need to drop the gay-marriage campaign, and go for civil-unions which are identical, yet more palatable to the general(voting) public.
The keyword is "identical" - so far, none of the gay civil union laws really are identical to marriage laws. For example, adoptions are extremely difficult - not because of the "gay thing" but because adoption laws don't recognize the civil union and thus only one member of the civil union is permitted to adopt the child on paper which then leads to all kinds of parental guardian issues, etc. Hospitals tend not to accept civil unions as making people "close relatives" for visitation purposes. It can be difficult to collect benefits like social security which are often based on one partner's contributions.
When you get your water bill you trust they had accurate measuring equipment, the same with any other bill.
No you don't blindly trust the accuracy of their measuring equipment. If the numbers seem out of line, you make a fuss and contest said accuracy. That's equivalent of what's going on here.
Rather than seeing the source code, they could just ask for them to be tested - like they would with anything else.
Who is to say that testing is going to catch all the corner cases? Sure, inspection isn't necessarily going to catch all the corner cases either, but inspection won't hurt and if there is a smoking gun in the code its a lot easier to find it and prove it exists by looking at the code than trying to divine its presence by testing.
VLC can play back from a file that another process is writing to. So if you can figure out how to write the incoming video stream to a network filesystem, each classroom could use VLC to playback that file and you would only have to worry about a delay buffer of a minute or two to ensure smooth playback.
While I have not tried it myself, VLC is also capable of rebroadcasting video. So if you can view the live stream directly with VLC, you can probably get that copy of VLC to multiplex it out to other VLC clients on other machines.
If others knew what I make, I would get a pay cut. My pay has been negotiated between myself and management. There would be a brouhaha if others in similar, but less accountable, roles thought I was "paid too much" or some such.
Or, it would be incentive for everyone else to negotiate better. It depends on whether the people around you are more interested in pulling you down, or lifting themselves up.
There is a reason it is just about standard corporate policy world-wide that employees are forbidden from sharing salary information amongst themselves, and it certainly isn't to protect those of us who have better negotiating skills.
The waterfall method is still the best development model.
That's funny because the waterfall model was first described by Winston Royce in a two-part article using it as a fictional "bad" approach to software engineering.
Due to the two-part setup of the article, many people only read the first part that described the waterfall model but not the second part where he lays out just why it is a bad model. Consequently, thousands of papers have gone on to cite Royce's paper as the source of the model without realizing that his only reason for describing it was to discredit it.
Kind of like the way people often refer to Ben Franklin as the creator of "daylight savings time" when in fact it was a big joke.
Probably not. Twice in the last decade Mercedes has thought that using the janis joplin song Mercedes Benz in their commercials was a good idea, despite the fact that the entire song is a criticism of the exact kind of materialism that drives buyers to Mercedes's luxury lines in the first place.
Unfortunately my favorite channel (comedy 150) is one of them. And they're not normal commercials either; they're all for erectile dysfunction, male enhancement, gotomeeting.com, and colon cleansing. As if everyone who likes to laugh has a small, soft penis, a bloated colon, and needs to meet with people in Hong Kong NOW!
You missed the joke. It is Comedy Central, right? Those advertisements are part of the programming. Most cable channels repeat the same programming over and over again, so commercials and programming tend to blend together.
First of all, it's technically not spam, since you have to sign up to receive it (it's basically an audio newsletter)
It isn't clear from the article whether or not simply purchasing a broad-featured option like "premium sound system" is what they mean by "signing up" for the 'newsletter.'
When I worked in retail sales in the early nineties, Computer printers were making good enough images to encourage some idiots to try passing home-made bills as real.
Seems to be the majority of counterfeiting nowadays:
Because of the message from the hacked britney spears account, I found out about a cool indie horror flick - Teeth - found it online and enjoyed it for the quirky little story that it was.
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It figures that only a company run by a Microsoft exec could actually make my blood boil worse than Comcast.
Allen was co-founder and left Microsoft in 1983. He's hardly to blame for what's happened since.
I guess it's just me, or the local market I live in, but I can get 50/5 fiber service for $80/month now. WiMAX services in the area offer up to 150/150
Gee thanks for all that info. Too bad you were so much more interested in talking about yourself than in actually passing any useful information along that you left out where your "local market" actually is.
The idea is to have a set of false, made up answers that you *always* use to the same old security, so you don't forget them. No one is going to find that stuff on line because it's not affiliated with you except in your imagination.
So it isn't quite publicly available, but it is available to anyone with at least administrative access to the sites you've signed up on and used the same information (and chances are that info gets stored in a cleartext file or at best a database). So if you use the same info at all websites it reduces your security to that of the least secure website you've given the info to.
Someone explain to me exactly how the riaa and their like are not the exact same thing as the mafia?
www.mafiaa.org
I can't say that nationalizing would make it cheaper, but I can't imagine it possibly getting any worse.
I can and it isn't hard.
Any nationalization bill will inevitably be loaded with corporate welfare under the false rubric of "capitalism" or "free markets." Kind of the way the bill that established "Medicare Part D" actually prevented the government from negotiating the price of medicine that it purchased for the program's use (compared to the VA which is allowed to negotiate, Medicare pays more than 2x as much for equivalent medicine).
I don't get this obsession with "standby" power draw... My computer and display and TV and DVD player already draw zero watts when off, thanks to the magic of the switch on the power strip.
Its not so easy for all of us. My Dell 24" monitor frequently "crashes" if I use the powerstrip to turn it off. It still mostly works (usually it displays the video signal) but all of the user interface things (brightness control, switching inputs, power button, etc) are dead.
The infamous Broadcast Flag--the only element of DRM to have ever loomed over broadcast television--is dead and buried. Besides, none of the DTV converters currently available have any DRM-compliance built in.
Not quite "dead and buried" - turns out that some broadcasters are using it anyway and some tuners are obeying it anyway. In fact, our buddy Microsoft is lead the charge.
So, while the BF remains voluntary, that doesn't help the poor schmucks who get stuck with a system that has "voluntarily" given away their option to ignore the BF.
Unfortunately, patients are not trusted with medical records. Any possibility of alteration or forgery cannot be permitted, because this would invalidate the concept of those records being reliable.
Easily solved with a system of digital signatures that enforce an audit trail.
And how does you keeping records help with any of those problems?
Lets take that one step further - if these people know that the system is keeping records on them, then they probably aren't even going to come in for any treatment until its too late to help them any more.
It's all fine and dandy to argue that putting control of the system in the hands of benevolent professionals will end all kinds of bad behaviour, but the real world is never so simple. You take control away from people and they will do their utmost to assert it by any means they can, even if it is ultimately self-destructive - especially people for whom there is not much else left in their lives.
So, a good game is enjoyable no matter how much violence it contains. Why, then, do certain game publishers keep pushing the limits of violent content?
Variety. You could say the same thing about romcoms - a good romcom is enjoyable despite not containing any violence, but that doesn't mean that people only want to watch romcoms.
I thought it was Start of Authority.
Gays need to drop the gay-marriage campaign, and go for civil-unions which are identical, yet more palatable to the general(voting) public.
The keyword is "identical" - so far, none of the gay civil union laws really are identical to marriage laws. For example, adoptions are extremely difficult - not because of the "gay thing" but because adoption laws don't recognize the civil union and thus only one member of the civil union is permitted to adopt the child on paper which then leads to all kinds of parental guardian issues, etc. Hospitals tend not to accept civil unions as making people "close relatives" for visitation purposes. It can be difficult to collect benefits like social security which are often based on one partner's contributions.
When you get your water bill you trust they had accurate measuring equipment, the same with any other bill.
No you don't blindly trust the accuracy of their measuring equipment. If the numbers seem out of line, you make a fuss and contest said accuracy. That's equivalent of what's going on here.
Rather than seeing the source code, they could just ask for them to be tested - like they would with anything else.
Who is to say that testing is going to catch all the corner cases? Sure, inspection isn't necessarily going to catch all the corner cases either, but inspection won't hurt and if there is a smoking gun in the code its a lot easier to find it and prove it exists by looking at the code than trying to divine its presence by testing.
VLC might be an option.
VLC can play back from a file that another process is writing to. So if you can figure out how to write the incoming video stream to a network filesystem, each classroom could use VLC to playback that file and you would only have to worry about a delay buffer of a minute or two to ensure smooth playback.
While I have not tried it myself, VLC is also capable of rebroadcasting video. So if you can view the live stream directly with VLC, you can probably get that copy of VLC to multiplex it out to other VLC clients on other machines.
What is gained too lightly is esteemed too little. its an old saw but very true.
Or the corollary - "What is gained at great expense is valued too highly."
Which is the reason frats haze pledges.
If others knew what I make, I would get a pay cut. My pay has been negotiated between myself and management. There would be a brouhaha if others in similar, but less accountable, roles thought I was "paid too much" or some such.
Or, it would be incentive for everyone else to negotiate better.
It depends on whether the people around you are more interested in pulling you down, or lifting themselves up.
There is a reason it is just about standard corporate policy world-wide that employees are forbidden from sharing salary information amongst themselves, and it certainly isn't to protect those of us who have better negotiating skills.
That's what he said. Wikipedia is the 2nd place he goes because google is the first.
The waterfall method is still the best development model.
That's funny because the waterfall model was first described by Winston Royce in a two-part article using it as a fictional "bad" approach to software engineering.
Due to the two-part setup of the article, many people only read the first part that described the waterfall model but not the second part where he lays out just why it is a bad model. Consequently, thousands of papers have gone on to cite Royce's paper as the source of the model without realizing that his only reason for describing it was to discredit it.
Kind of like the way people often refer to Ben Franklin as the creator of "daylight savings time" when in fact it was a big joke.
Why do we bother... with CPUs anymore? I'm just going to fill a case with graphics cards and call it a day.
Then you can enjoy the fact that you'll be able to run your anti-virus software 21x faster too.
Probably not. Twice in the last decade Mercedes has thought that using the janis joplin song Mercedes Benz in their commercials was a good idea, despite the fact that the entire song is a criticism of the exact kind of materialism that drives buyers to Mercedes's luxury lines in the first place.
Unfortunately my favorite channel (comedy 150) is one of them. And they're not normal commercials either; they're all for erectile dysfunction, male enhancement, gotomeeting.com, and colon cleansing.
As if everyone who likes to laugh has a small, soft penis, a bloated colon, and needs to meet with people in Hong Kong NOW!
You missed the joke. It is Comedy Central, right? Those advertisements are part of the programming. Most cable channels repeat the same programming over and over again, so commercials and programming tend to blend together.
First of all, it's technically not spam, since you have to sign up to receive it (it's basically an audio newsletter)
It isn't clear from the article whether or not simply purchasing a broad-featured option like "premium sound system" is what they mean by "signing up" for the 'newsletter.'
When I worked in retail sales in the early nineties, Computer printers were making good enough images to encourage some idiots to try passing home-made bills as real.
Seems to be the majority of counterfeiting nowadays:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/trends_in_count.html
Because of the message from the hacked britney spears account, I found out about a cool indie horror flick - Teeth - found it online and enjoyed it for the quirky little story that it was.
Wait, maybe HE is joking now, in which case you would be a hypocrite!
Or he could just "wooosh" me.