Yes, the cable and satellite companies are paying each customer $5629.02 this month in compensation because your privacy was risked when the customer database was hacked.
On an entirely unrelated note, all cable and satellite TV providers have raised their rates by $5629.02 this month. They companies cite an unanticipated increase in expenses as the reason for the rate hike.
I read lately (wish I remembered where) that somewhere around half (60%?) of medical costs in the US are paid for by the government.
- My guess is that this large proportion is one of the main drivers behind increasing medical costs. (People see government money as free, making less resistance to increasing costs.)
- Another would be people (lawyers) looking for an easy buck through lawsuits.
- The third driver is a widespread fundamental misunderstanding of insurance. Buying insurance is supposed to be MORE expensive, on average, than doing without. Medical insurance is no exception. The more medicine is covered by insurance the more expensive it will be.
If I steals something, but still own a television, I am not stealing because I'm poor, I'm stealing to keep my television.
If someone pays for -- for example -- alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, candy, a house with more than 1 bedroom room per 4 people, a radio with more than one speaker, they aren't stealing from poverty either.
They may be belpless in their addiction. They may be culturally blind and think that they need more luxury than they really do. They may have been deprived of a good home in their formative years. They may need help more than jail. None of these reasons are poverty.
You have to have worked lately. You have to not have been fired for not doing your job. You have to be able to work (no health problems, etc). You have to be actively looking for a job. It only lasts for 6 months. It doesn't pay near what a job does.
In practice it isn't as restrictive as it is on paper.
The Extermination Order wasn't really a law, and was probably illegal, but it did get the Mormons out of Missouri. (Though many did return before 1976.)
If it were just a few minor errors I wouldn't worry about it.
However: The URL errors (extremely easy to check, very likely to be checked by purchasers of the book, and in widely separate places in the book) suggest that fact-checking wasn't important in the production of the book. The fact that the authors claim not to know why 1024 is a KB means that they claim a lack of fundamental understanding of computers and suggests that it would be foolish to take computer advice from them.
Moreover, these are errors that I know without even reading a full chapter of the book!
Sorry. I meant to say: The authors don't understand that both 1024 and 1000 are used, but never -- by knowledgeable people -- in the same context at the same time. The authors also claim not to understand why 1024 is used.
If you completely discard my first post because of that egregious error, I think you're entirely justified.
Disclaimer: I had no editor, nor proofreader, nor co-author to check my preview, and I'm not charging $20 either. My posts are not a parallel analogy to book publishing.
The (lack of) reading comprehension on/. never ceases to astound me.
AC implies that I would refuse to send email to someone just because it is a hotmail account. I never said that. I said, "I can't imagine any important reason to send an email to a hotmail account." What I meant was, "I can't imagine any important reason to send an email to a hotmail account."
I have sent email to hotmail accounts. The reasons behind those emails weren't important.
I'm was just pointing out that if the day ever comes that I have to send something important to someone with a hotmail account, and their hotmail won't accept my emails, it's no big loss (to me). I use their other address, or fax, or whatever.
From the review: "Having defined a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, the authors then define a megabyte as 1000 kilobytes. They also claim not to understand why it is 1024 rather than 1000."
The authors don't understand that both 1024 and 1000 are used, but never (by knowledgeable people), and claim not to understand why 1024?
The reviewer also noted that the URL given in the intro isn't accurate.
To check a little on my own, I clicked on the link to Cisco Press and skimmed through the sample chapter. They mentioned http://www.scopes.com/ as a urban legend debunking site. (instead of http://www.snopes.com/)
Not only would I not check it out of the library, but if they mailed me a free copy I'd probably chuck it in the trash.
I can't imagine any important reason to send an email to a hotmail account. I haven't yet dealt with any business that has a hotmail address. I don't think that any of my family or friends are silly enough to only have hotmail email. If anyone has only hotmail and really needs something emailed to them, they can get a throwaway on another domain.
Actually, for anything really important I will send a fax, snail mail a letter, or make a phone call.
Besides, the phone calls were hilarious. "Pleeeeaaaasssssseeee stop. I can't take it any more." "Why are you playing Macarena over and over?" "How many times are you going to play this?"
To all of these kinds of calls the DJ would respond, "Have you voimited yet? This is Macarena 'til you vomit."
I was driving to work. It wasn't a long drive, but more than 5 minutes.
"Macarena" was on the radio when I started the car. A few minutes later "Macarana" was still on, and I was thinking that the song must be longer than I thought, or something. About then the DJ came on and said "We're playing 'Macarena' until you vomit." Then played the song again.
After that iteration of the song the DJ came back and played some phone calls of people begging him to change the song, but he just said that it was "Macarena" until you vomit.
I don't know when the thing started, but by the time I got to work it was the 17th or so "Macarena" in a row.
Copying music isn't necessary to listen to it on the radio. Copying a book isn't standard practice just to know the story. Copying a movie isn't required to see it on HBO.
Making a copy of html from the internet IS part of getting your computer to display it.
I hope that clears up the difference that was implied in the GP.
Farming is also very complex. Think of it as a combination of botany, meteorology, applied chemistry, mechanical and civil engineering.
A good farmer has to know the use of a great deal of tools (many of which he ends up making himself), what to plant, when to plant it, when to harvest it, how to care for it, how to prepare the land before planting, and care for the land after the harvest. A good farmer will know important differences between varieties of the same species that are identical to the layman. In some cases a lot of zoology/veterinary medicine is necessary as well.
On top of all this the good farmer has to estimate the market a year ahead of time.
It's *really* not very simple either.
I would guess that a lot of people think of a smith as someone that has more muscles than brains. I would guess that people make a similar mistake with farmers, confusing the farm laborer with the farmer.
I had scarlet fever in high school, and got completely over it (including rheumatic fever and hives) in a couple of weeks. My grandfather had scarlet fever in high school and it took him more than a year to get over it.
Too bad they made me get a penicillin shot. I probably would have been cured much quicker without it, like my grandfather.
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You mean the quickest this week?
Yes, the cable and satellite companies are paying each customer $5629.02 this month in compensation because your privacy was risked when the customer database was hacked.
On an entirely unrelated note, all cable and satellite TV providers have raised their rates by $5629.02 this month. They companies cite an unanticipated increase in expenses as the reason for the rate hike.
I read lately (wish I remembered where) that somewhere around half (60%?) of medical costs in the US are paid for by the government.
- My guess is that this large proportion is one of the main drivers behind increasing medical costs. (People see government money as free, making less resistance to increasing costs.)
- Another would be people (lawyers) looking for an easy buck through lawsuits.
- The third driver is a widespread fundamental misunderstanding of insurance. Buying insurance is supposed to be MORE expensive, on average, than doing without. Medical insurance is no exception. The more medicine is covered by insurance the more expensive it will be.
The vast majority of crime isn't poverty induced.
If I steals something, but still own a television, I am not stealing because I'm poor, I'm stealing to keep my television.
If someone pays for -- for example -- alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, candy, a house with more than 1 bedroom room per 4 people, a radio with more than one speaker, they aren't stealing from poverty either.
They may be belpless in their addiction. They may be culturally blind and think that they need more luxury than they really do. They may have been deprived of a good home in their formative years. They may need help more than jail. None of these reasons are poverty.
Unemployment in NY state:
(in casual language)
You have to have worked lately.
You have to not have been fired for not doing your job.
You have to be able to work (no health problems, etc).
You have to be actively looking for a job.
It only lasts for 6 months.
It doesn't pay near what a job does.
In practice it isn't as restrictive as it is on paper.
Or they change it first.
The Extermination Order wasn't really a law, and was probably illegal, but it did get the Mormons out of Missouri. (Though many did return before 1976.)
1 831_1844/extermination_eom.htm
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/
If it were just a few minor errors I wouldn't worry about it.
However:
The URL errors (extremely easy to check, very likely to be checked by purchasers of the book, and in widely separate places in the book) suggest that fact-checking wasn't important in the production of the book.
The fact that the authors claim not to know why 1024 is a KB means that they claim a lack of fundamental understanding of computers and suggests that it would be foolish to take computer advice from them.
Moreover, these are errors that I know without even reading a full chapter of the book!
Sorry. I meant to say:
The authors don't understand that both 1024 and 1000 are used, but never -- by knowledgeable people -- in the same context at the same time. The authors also claim not to understand why 1024 is used.
If you completely discard my first post because of that egregious error, I think you're entirely justified.
Disclaimer: I had no editor, nor proofreader, nor co-author to check my preview, and I'm not charging $20 either. My posts are not a parallel analogy to book publishing.
The (lack of) reading comprehension on /. never ceases to astound me.
AC implies that I would refuse to send email to someone just because it is a hotmail account. I never said that.
I said, "I can't imagine any important reason to send an email to a hotmail account."
What I meant was, "I can't imagine any important reason to send an email to a hotmail account."
I have sent email to hotmail accounts. The reasons behind those emails weren't important.
I'm was just pointing out that if the day ever comes that I have to send something important to someone with a hotmail account, and their hotmail won't accept my emails, it's no big loss (to me). I use their other address, or fax, or whatever.
From the review: "Having defined a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, the authors then define a megabyte as 1000 kilobytes. They also claim not to understand why it is 1024 rather than 1000."
The authors don't understand that both 1024 and 1000 are used, but never (by knowledgeable people), and claim not to understand why 1024?
The reviewer also noted that the URL given in the intro isn't accurate.
To check a little on my own, I clicked on the link to Cisco Press and skimmed through the sample chapter. They mentioned http://www.scopes.com/ as a urban legend debunking site. (instead of http://www.snopes.com/)
Not only would I not check it out of the library, but if they mailed me a free copy I'd probably chuck it in the trash.
I can't imagine any important reason to send an email to a hotmail account.
I haven't yet dealt with any business that has a hotmail address.
I don't think that any of my family or friends are silly enough to only have hotmail email.
If anyone has only hotmail and really needs something emailed to them, they can get a throwaway on another domain.
Actually, for anything really important I will send a fax, snail mail a letter, or make a phone call.
I wish we had a few more details.
On the surface it sounds a little like something that could evolve into the micropayment structure that could end spam.
I was curious.
Besides, the phone calls were hilarious.
"Pleeeeaaaasssssseeee stop. I can't take it any more."
"Why are you playing Macarena over and over?"
"How many times are you going to play this?"
To all of these kinds of calls the DJ would respond, "Have you voimited yet? This is Macarena 'til you vomit."
I hope you're not serious.
If I am generating a random sequence of digits:
1112481
and
9999999
Are equally likely. In this case neither was random, but I non-randomly selected the first sequence to "look more random."
What do you mean by "not random enough?"
Once you start putting any criteria on the number that comes out, doesn't that make it not random anymore?
I was driving to work. It wasn't a long drive, but more than 5 minutes.
"Macarena" was on the radio when I started the car. A few minutes later "Macarana" was still on, and I was thinking that the song must be longer than I thought, or something. About then the DJ came on and said "We're playing 'Macarena' until you vomit." Then played the song again.
After that iteration of the song the DJ came back and played some phone calls of people begging him to change the song, but he just said that it was "Macarena" until you vomit.
I don't know when the thing started, but by the time I got to work it was the 17th or so "Macarena" in a row.
Copying music isn't necessary to listen to it on the radio.
Copying a book isn't standard practice just to know the story.
Copying a movie isn't required to see it on HBO.
Making a copy of html from the internet IS part of getting your computer to display it.
I hope that clears up the difference that was implied in the GP.
Shouldn't have used those backup tapes for streamers, I guess.
Or was it backup CDs for coasters/frisbees?
(CDs don't work well for frisbees. In my experience they break after just a few brick walls, and it costs a stroke, and makes it harder to get par.)
"If you would read it from someone else, would it still be funny?"
."
:)"
Sometimes.
"Aren't you tired of the same old . .
Nope.
"Now I feel better
Slashdot cathartic therapy does it again!
Farming is also very complex. Think of it as a combination of botany, meteorology, applied chemistry, mechanical and civil engineering.
A good farmer has to know the use of a great deal of tools (many of which he ends up making himself), what to plant, when to plant it, when to harvest it, how to care for it, how to prepare the land before planting, and care for the land after the harvest. A good farmer will know important differences between varieties of the same species that are identical to the layman. In some cases a lot of zoology/veterinary medicine is necessary as well.
On top of all this the good farmer has to estimate the market a year ahead of time.
It's *really* not very simple either.
I would guess that a lot of people think of a smith as someone that has more muscles than brains. I would guess that people make a similar mistake with farmers, confusing the farm laborer with the farmer.
I always thought that it was Risk and Distraction.
"5) It's rather a skilled job compared to being a farmer"
I can see how a smith would need different skills than a farmer, but not how a good smith would need more skill than a good farmer.
I had scarlet fever in high school, and got completely over it (including rheumatic fever and hives) in a couple of weeks.
My grandfather had scarlet fever in high school and it took him more than a year to get over it.
Too bad they made me get a penicillin shot. I probably would have been cured much quicker without it, like my grandfather.
Scientific debates often work this way in universities too.