Just because someone boasts they are part of Anonymous or claims responsibility for some act doesn't mean they were actually involved. The investigators will need to connect the dots via IP addresses, seizing and analyzing computers, etc. They won't be able to prove their case just because someone claims they spearheaded the attack on Mastercard.
Plus, I know they didn't get the right people because I'm the founder of Anonymous and I don't know any of those guys they mention in TFA.
BoA is not a public utility. When I ran a business I declined to deal with certain people because they were a huge pain in the ass. Can't BoA do the same????
BoA must folllow US banking and Federal regulations regarding discrimination, fair lending, and other laws. I don't know enough about banking regulations to address specifics, but a bank will definitely have to follow more rules than an average business. Of course, that doesn't mean they follow the rules...as we've discovered in the past few years.
Glad you posted the link, but I think it's a bit early for him to release the key. I think the bank file dump is a bigger deal, and it's more important to save the "insurance" leverage for that.
I too ran a multi-node BBS (PCBoard) for many years under DESQView with QEMM. It ran reliably and on pretty basic hardware. By the time the hardware improved the Internet was replacing BBS setups so I just moved the BBS message boards into the web and newsgroups.
Can someone please explain to me why it will take Adobe two weeks to get a patch out? It seems like it should be an "all hands on deck" project to get this fixed and distributed.
I assume that the initial detection would be susceptible to "false positive" but once a human operator takes over the video camera and sensors they would be able to accurately evaluate whatever the robot detected. At that point, they could dispatch personnel, or maybe even send in a drone to do a flyover.
This seems like an excellent use of robotic patrol vehicles. Driving around on patrol in that desert is a tedious assignment and the chance that someone might actually show up out there to steal old nuclear waste is pretty low. If the robotic vehicle detects anything unusual there is plenty of time to get people (or the next generation of vehicular robot?) out to the site to investigate further and/or stop the perps.
and you'll be reading a story about engineers building a machine to play old 8-Track recordings, or old CD's they found in the bottom of a desk in a museum.
I'm specifically commenting on my hardware (i.e. nuts and bolts and hammers) store, so I don't really know how the electronics stores handle returns. We accept returns up to 30 days after purchase. If the item has been opened we will examine it and possibly accept it as a "defective" return and file a claim with the manufacturer. If the item is unopened then we put it back on the shelf.
Sadly the large US chains like WalMart have conditioned the customers to return items in ripped or destroyed packages. Customers will say "Just send it back to the manufacturer", not realizing that these returns wind up adding to the cost for everyone. For many years we tried to take the high ground and refuse to provide a refund when the customer had obviously abused the product or misread the instructions. However, "the customer is always right" is such a mantra that we've decided it's not our battle to fight. We claim the product against the manufacturer, and if it's actually usable I'll take it home myself.
Funny side-story....when we claim products we write "DEF" (for "defective") in magic marker on the product. This is so we know it's been claimed and also to prevent a customer from dumpster-diving and trying to return it. When I was growing up I'd see products around the house with DEF marked on the underside or the carton. When I asked my dad what DEF meant he said it meant "Deliver to Fix" (or last name). Guess he didn't want us kinds to know we had a house full of returned "defective" (but perfectly usable) items.:)
Yes, it's definitely something we are careful about. We added the loyalty program in 2004 but we always had certain customers that we thought were PITA's based on their habits (in with sale flyers, complaining about prices, seemed to return items more frequently). Once we actually were tracking our customers then I was able to look at their shopping pattern over a two or three year period. Some were actually very good customers and just "high maintenance". They shopped with coupons, but they also shopped without and generated decent gross margin (35% is OK, 40% or higher is quite good). I made a point of alerting my staff about some of these customers that we assumed were "bad customers".
But others were regular abusers of the program. They would buy the $25 minimum to redeem a coupon, then return most of the items a week or two later. Over a two year period they averaged less than 20% margin, some even approaching negative margin (and gross margin is only calculated on the goods and not the cost of labor, lights, rent, etc.). So these customers were truly costing me money with every trip.
I'd say we have only about thirty of these customers in a database of 25,000 so it's a tiny percentage. They are just highly noticeable since they are high maintenance.
Also, it's pretty difficult for them to tell that they are "low value" since they don't know about the offer they never received. They still get the basic reward ($10 for every $250 spent) but they just don't get some of the special offers.
We do this with our customer loyalty program at our hardware store. Different customers get different offers. If you spend often but only with coupons and are generating lower profit then we'll send you a $5 of $30 offer. Someone who is very profitable when they come in will get a $5 off $25 or maybe $10 off $40 if they are a very good customer (profit wise). If someone is very low profit and a PITA (pain in the arm) then we will flag them and not mail them any coupons. The coupons have bar codes so we track redemptions, basket size, lifetime customer value, and other metrics.
My father-in-law stayed with us for about a year and this definitely would have helped us out a few times. Some days he was fine, but other days he would soak through his clothes (and to the furniture) and not even notice.
Of course the whole electronic underpants and wetness brings to mind the sad demise of a woman on our block several years ago. She suffered from dementia and was left unattended in her room. In her confused state she decided to use a hassock fan in her room as a toilet and electrocuted herself (setting fire to the room in the process). Hopefully these undergarments will be sufficiently insulated to prevent any shorts (no pun intended).
I immediately thought of this Onion article, especially after I read about how profitable Classmates.com is. I can't believe people subscribe to this service when you have Facebook, MySpace, and even Google to assist in locating old classmates. There are Facebook groups for nearly every school imaginable, as well as groups for each graduating class, even groups within a graduating class. As funny as the article in The Onion is, it appears that the Classmates.com management knows plenty about Facebook and still manages to remain profitable.
You have enough skill to handle that task, unfortunately the article implies that the owners of the open networks are incapable of setting up secure networks. I'm sure they would have even more trouble segmenting an open access point.
However, I had not really considered open wireless access points at coffee shops. I assume they usually have at least a key that they change every few days to keep customers coming inside to get coffee.
As an owner of a small business I can't imagine leaving our WiFi open. In addition to PCI requirements to protect credit card data it just doesn't make sense to leave your network open. Would a business install a network hub on a wall outside their building? As far as "managing" the wireless network, if the business has nobody that can implement a simple password protection scheme then they probably should not be maintaining their own network in the first place. Odds are they'll wind up with compromised servers spewing spam and malware, and infecting people that hop on to their open wireless network.
Just get out the manual and fix your open access points.
I think the focal point is that Christian enemies are arguing for,"Seperation of Church and State" while Christians argue that the Constitution says this nowhere in it.
"Christian enemies"? You mean all non-Christians?
And FYI, most Christians agree with the policy of separation of Church and State. You present your argument as if all Christians hold your view.
My daughter (16 yr old) plays a lot of video games and about 50% of the time she plays music from her iTunes collection rather than listening to the game soundtrack. For example, she plays World or Warcraft and rarely has the music or sound effects from the game playing. Even while in raids she'll listen to a mix of vent dialog and iTunes music. On Xbox 360, she uses the game soundtrack only when necessary (i.e. Rock Band), but at other times uses her own CD's or iTunes shared library.
This probably has less to do with the music soundtrack of the game and more to do with the multi-tasking that teens are doing. While playing Warcraft she has iTunes playing, AOL IM running with a dozen friends online, vent running with raid members, and her cell phone handy. When I play Warcraft I listen to the soundtrack and effects, but it's probably because if I had iTunes playing as well I'd get distracted.:)
In the late 1970's there were many Iranian college students in the Boston/Cambridge area (I was at MIT) and they would participate in protests against the Shah. In order to protect their families back home they had to wear masks to protests as they believed Iranian agents were in the US taking photographs and tracking their movements. So the concept is not new even though the regime and the tracking technology has changed dramatically. Talk about "deja vu".
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Just because someone boasts they are part of Anonymous or claims responsibility for some act doesn't mean they were actually involved. The investigators will need to connect the dots via IP addresses, seizing and analyzing computers, etc. They won't be able to prove their case just because someone claims they spearheaded the attack on Mastercard.
Plus, I know they didn't get the right people because I'm the founder of Anonymous and I don't know any of those guys they mention in TFA.
I was fascinated by that guys speech until he said:
"You saw what happened to Galileo. The government, for saying such things, based on SCIENCE, executed him."
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BoA is not a public utility.
When I ran a business I declined to deal with certain people because they were a huge pain in the ass. Can't BoA do the same????
BoA must folllow US banking and Federal regulations regarding discrimination, fair lending, and other laws. I don't know enough about banking regulations to address specifics, but a bank will definitely have to follow more rules than an average business. Of course, that doesn't mean they follow the rules...as we've discovered in the past few years.
Glad you posted the link, but I think it's a bit early for him to release the key. I think the bank file dump is a bigger deal, and it's more important to save the "insurance" leverage for that.
I too ran a multi-node BBS (PCBoard) for many years under DESQView with QEMM. It ran reliably and on pretty basic hardware. By the time the hardware improved the Internet was replacing BBS setups so I just moved the BBS message boards into the web and newsgroups.
Ryan Howard already has this up and running...it's called Wuphf!
Can someone please explain to me why it will take Adobe two weeks to get a patch out? It seems like it should be an "all hands on deck" project to get this fixed and distributed.
I assume that the initial detection would be susceptible to "false positive" but once a human operator takes over the video camera and sensors they would be able to accurately evaluate whatever the robot detected. At that point, they could dispatch personnel, or maybe even send in a drone to do a flyover.
This seems like an excellent use of robotic patrol vehicles. Driving around on patrol in that desert is a tedious assignment and the chance that someone might actually show up out there to steal old nuclear waste is pretty low. If the robotic vehicle detects anything unusual there is plenty of time to get people (or the next generation of vehicular robot?) out to the site to investigate further and/or stop the perps.
Beck's fans use Google Chalkboard rather than Google Maps.
C'mon, why would I submit a problem report when I could start a political thread on Slashdot instead? :)
and you'll be reading a story about engineers building a machine to play old 8-Track recordings, or old CD's they found in the bottom of a desk in a museum.
I for one will welcome our shiny new overlords.
I'm specifically commenting on my hardware (i.e. nuts and bolts and hammers) store, so I don't really know how the electronics stores handle returns. We accept returns up to 30 days after purchase. If the item has been opened we will examine it and possibly accept it as a "defective" return and file a claim with the manufacturer. If the item is unopened then we put it back on the shelf.
Sadly the large US chains like WalMart have conditioned the customers to return items in ripped or destroyed packages. Customers will say "Just send it back to the manufacturer", not realizing that these returns wind up adding to the cost for everyone. For many years we tried to take the high ground and refuse to provide a refund when the customer had obviously abused the product or misread the instructions. However, "the customer is always right" is such a mantra that we've decided it's not our battle to fight. We claim the product against the manufacturer, and if it's actually usable I'll take it home myself.
Funny side-story....when we claim products we write "DEF" (for "defective") in magic marker on the product. This is so we know it's been claimed and also to prevent a customer from dumpster-diving and trying to return it. When I was growing up I'd see products around the house with DEF marked on the underside or the carton. When I asked my dad what DEF meant he said it meant "Deliver to Fix" (or last name). Guess he didn't want us kinds to know we had a house full of returned "defective" (but perfectly usable) items. :)
Yes, it's definitely something we are careful about. We added the loyalty program in 2004 but we always had certain customers that we thought were PITA's based on their habits (in with sale flyers, complaining about prices, seemed to return items more frequently). Once we actually were tracking our customers then I was able to look at their shopping pattern over a two or three year period. Some were actually very good customers and just "high maintenance". They shopped with coupons, but they also shopped without and generated decent gross margin (35% is OK, 40% or higher is quite good). I made a point of alerting my staff about some of these customers that we assumed were "bad customers".
But others were regular abusers of the program. They would buy the $25 minimum to redeem a coupon, then return most of the items a week or two later. Over a two year period they averaged less than 20% margin, some even approaching negative margin (and gross margin is only calculated on the goods and not the cost of labor, lights, rent, etc.). So these customers were truly costing me money with every trip.
I'd say we have only about thirty of these customers in a database of 25,000 so it's a tiny percentage. They are just highly noticeable since they are high maintenance.
Also, it's pretty difficult for them to tell that they are "low value" since they don't know about the offer they never received. They still get the basic reward ($10 for every $250 spent) but they just don't get some of the special offers.
We do this with our customer loyalty program at our hardware store. Different customers get different offers. If you spend often but only with coupons and are generating lower profit then we'll send you a $5 of $30 offer. Someone who is very profitable when they come in will get a $5 off $25 or maybe $10 off $40 if they are a very good customer (profit wise). If someone is very low profit and a PITA (pain in the arm) then we will flag them and not mail them any coupons. The coupons have bar codes so we track redemptions, basket size, lifetime customer value, and other metrics.
My father-in-law stayed with us for about a year and this definitely would have helped us out a few times. Some days he was fine, but other days he would soak through his clothes (and to the furniture) and not even notice.
Of course the whole electronic underpants and wetness brings to mind the sad demise of a woman on our block several years ago. She suffered from dementia and was left unattended in her room. In her confused state she decided to use a hassock fan in her room as a toilet and electrocuted herself (setting fire to the room in the process). Hopefully these undergarments will be sufficiently insulated to prevent any shorts (no pun intended).
I immediately thought of this Onion article, especially after I read about how profitable Classmates.com is. I can't believe people subscribe to this service when you have Facebook, MySpace, and even Google to assist in locating old classmates. There are Facebook groups for nearly every school imaginable, as well as groups for each graduating class, even groups within a graduating class. As funny as the article in The Onion is, it appears that the Classmates.com management knows plenty about Facebook and still manages to remain profitable.
You have enough skill to handle that task, unfortunately the article implies that the owners of the open networks are incapable of setting up secure networks. I'm sure they would have even more trouble segmenting an open access point.
However, I had not really considered open wireless access points at coffee shops. I assume they usually have at least a key that they change every few days to keep customers coming inside to get coffee.
As an owner of a small business I can't imagine leaving our WiFi open. In addition to PCI requirements to protect credit card data it just doesn't make sense to leave your network open. Would a business install a network hub on a wall outside their building? As far as "managing" the wireless network, if the business has nobody that can implement a simple password protection scheme then they probably should not be maintaining their own network in the first place. Odds are they'll wind up with compromised servers spewing spam and malware, and infecting people that hop on to their open wireless network.
Just get out the manual and fix your open access points.
Evolution - The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer is an excellent book about Darwin, evolution, and even includes updated recent discussion related to intelligent design.
I think the focal point is that Christian enemies are arguing for,"Seperation of Church and State" while Christians argue that the Constitution says this nowhere in it.
"Christian enemies"? You mean all non-Christians?
And FYI, most Christians agree with the policy of separation of Church and State. You present your argument as if all Christians hold your view.
My daughter (16 yr old) plays a lot of video games and about 50% of the time she plays music from her iTunes collection rather than listening to the game soundtrack. For example, she plays World or Warcraft and rarely has the music or sound effects from the game playing. Even while in raids she'll listen to a mix of vent dialog and iTunes music. On Xbox 360, she uses the game soundtrack only when necessary (i.e. Rock Band), but at other times uses her own CD's or iTunes shared library.
This probably has less to do with the music soundtrack of the game and more to do with the multi-tasking that teens are doing. While playing Warcraft she has iTunes playing, AOL IM running with a dozen friends online, vent running with raid members, and her cell phone handy. When I play Warcraft I listen to the soundtrack and effects, but it's probably because if I had iTunes playing as well I'd get distracted. :)
In the late 1970's there were many Iranian college students in the Boston/Cambridge area (I was at MIT) and they would participate in protests against the Shah. In order to protect their families back home they had to wear masks to protests as they believed Iranian agents were in the US taking photographs and tracking their movements. So the concept is not new even though the regime and the tracking technology has changed dramatically. Talk about "deja vu".
You don't need to imagine, Paris Hilton has been lifeblogging from the bedroom for years.