This has been in the hopper since pre 1.0. But Calc still hasn't implemented basic useability functions that were present in Visicalc and every spreadsheet since. Meaning that spreadsheet power users can't easily start formulas with the numeric keypad.
Accounting firms get paid tens of millions of dollars to come up with tax hedges. It isn't all that obvious what they are doing in many cases.
For instance, one older tax hedge -- not listed specifically in any laws -- involved forming a specific type of investment trust which purchased secured deed liens bonds of oil piplines, then reselling the interests in the trust. Using this method, the income from said trusts could be treated as operating (rather than investment) income by the holders in due course. This allowed them to prevent required liquidation (and subsequent taxation) of retained earnings in a C corp which had since converted to an S corp.
If 1 click puchasing counts as non-obvious, the above is not even questionable.
I just cancelled comcast internet to get Bellsouth DSL back.
Comcast had random internet slowdowns lasting from 12 hrs to a week or more, at least once a month. Even with documentation (ping times to internal servers & google), they refused to even acknowledge the problem.
Comcast was much faster when it worked, but I needed something better than dialup on a random basis.
Learning excel/word/etc -- what is commonly considered "computer sci" is a waste of time. Learning actual computer science -- alogorithms, logic, etc -- doesn't even require a computer, much an up to date one. You can learn computer science on a chalk board and with a proto language.
my father was a supplier (actually negotiated the contracts) to Sam's Club & Walmart during that time period.
Wal-Mart's made with pride campaign meant that if your product was the exact same price or cheaper than the Chinese or Mexican product, it would be carried. One penny more and it was out.
Wal-Mart was forced to discontinue the campaign after a slew of state AG's sued them for misleading advertising.
claim to be the actual desecendents of Abraham (which Jesus claimed as well) -- no spirituality involved. Male Jews according to legend would have the exact same Y chromosome as Abraham carried unless a male ancestor was Jewish by conversion. This would mean for instance that all Levites and CoHain would have the same Y chromosome (which amazingly enough, about 50% of CoHain do).
Christians never claimed blood descent as far as I know (although early Christians who were Jewish did, but it had nothing to do with being Christian). Christians as far as I know consider themselves the spiritual descendents of Abraham.
The Jewish religion is passed down through the mother. To inherit judaism, your mother must be jewish.
That said, the religious status (priest/Levite, Cohain), tribe, and inheritance are all passed through the father. For instance, David was the scion of Saul. His mother was irrelavent to his being King of Isreal.
SSN's are essential for extending credit (credit reporting), which most universities do. They are also needed for accessing financial aid (VA, Federal Student Loans, etc).
That being said, grand juries are essentially useless (I say this as having served on one).
They make no determination of the law or potential defenses (the equivalent of jury instructions given at trial). They are only told one side of the story (by the DA's & Cops).
In this case, the GJ could have gone something like this:
DA: We wish to charge Mr. Jones with illegal wiretapping. In support of this charge, we call Officer Idiot
Officer Idiot: On Jun 10, 2005 at approximately 3:00pm, my voice was required by Mr. Jones while trying to interview him
GJ: True Bill, next case
The real issue is that we need some reforms in the GJ system.
The way the bankruptcy laws and asset seizure laws are written -- a "homestead" in Flordia is untouchable by creditors. House worth 20million? Doesn't matter -- its protected.
Note -- this applies to civil proceedings. Criminal forfieture laws are different.
They have no obligation to contact the studios with the Dixie Chicks. Under russian law, all copyright holder's have two choices:
Have no copyrights.
Have copyrights, but be subject to mandatory licensing terms which dictate both to whom you have to license, and for how much.
In addition, copyright length is severely restricted when compared to the US and the rest of Europe (for instance, all works pre 1975 are in the public domain).
Finally, Russian law considers internet distribution equivalent to radio distribution in the US. Meaning that songwriters are entitled to royalties -- but not artists. If your a songwriter, you should contact ROMS -- as there is likely some money waiting for you.
Some (not all) implementations of captia use a voice synthesizer to speak the letters in question. As a non-blind person, I find this easier than reading some of the more obsure ones.
You've never heard of a security issue with sendmail??!!!?? Time for a history lesson. Although obviously fixed now, Sendmail was the main culprit in the first internet worm ever found in the wild.
The Internet Worm of 1988 -- Introduction by Francis Litterio
The below document tells the story of the Internet Worm of 1988 and how it effectively shut down the Internet. I didn't write it, but it's hard to find it on the net these days, so I offer it here on the theory that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I remember when it happened. It was a big deal to computer people like me, but in 1988 the Internet was unknown even to the most sophisticated media reporters, and the World Wide Web had not been invented yet. I remember the NBC Evening News devoting less than 30 seconds to the topic. If an equally severe disruption of the Internet were to happen today, the President of the United States would probably hold a press conference to calm the nation.
usually found in accounting, marketing, or similar (although often not in purchasing).
Somewhere in there, you will have a credit analyst. Make friends with this person. They will have access to Dun & Bradstreet reports, paydex scores, and a host of other information about the hosting provider. They are the best people in most companies to research other companies -- because that's what they do for a living.
In a smaller company, it might make the most sense to speak to the department head/CFO, because you don't want their normal sales analysis, but rather a dependability analysis (similar, uses many of the same things, but not automated).
If you have questions, ask for CPA certified financials -- or at least a letter of attestation from a CPA firm that says they own/lease the multiple facilities, lines, etc. and that the company and pricipals are financially sound.
+5+22+R50C3 should be a valid formula without touching the = key. The reason for this is that it allows you to use the numeric keypad -- and the = button isn't part of it.
Calc has some serious issues (data mangling) importing spreadsheets. Do not use the import Excel function unless you know exactly what your doing -- and what the potential slip-ups are. A big one is the fact that it treats integers cast as strings as an integer = 0 in formulas -- with no warning.
Another issue is its formula handling. All spreadsheets since Visicalc recongize any of the numeric operations (+ - / *) as the beginning of a formula -- Calc doesn't (it only recongizes the = sign).
VOIP takes up very little bandwith -- the best (line quality) codecs take 45-64kbits/s max. Most take up half that. An ISDN line can handle 2 of them -- and even a heavily laden DSL line or Cable modem should have no problems.
The telco's problem with VOIP is that it kills their local monopoly. The cable people love VOIP -- but only if your using their service and not a 3rd party like Vonage or doing it yourself through Astrisk.
Maybe in your industry -- but doctor's have carried patient charts home, to and from hospitals, etc., forever. My father used to have a milk crate full of active patient charts in his car trunk.
There is no network in most nursing homes, and most hospitals won't allow their doctor's (or any staff) direct access to the internet and the ability to run something like TightVNC & SSH. A physician who downloads their currently hospitalized / nursing home bound patient charts to their laptop has no other way to do it -- other than printing it all out and carrying it by hand. I would also argue that its safer to do it this way than to open a port onto the internet with a physicians entire patient database.
HD encryption and good password protection is essential -- but to be honest I've seen more private health information leaked by social engineering attacks or database administrator's not following rules than I have from stolen laptops.
I bring up this industry because I'm most familiar with it -- but could see it applicable in others too (insurance adjuster in New Orleans comes to mind).
I don't know what world you live in, but people need access to sensitive data on their laptops -- espcially if they are in an area that doesn't have internet / communications availability.
You can take precautions such as encrypting the disk -- but many people can't do their jobs without access to that information.
Before computers, people often put files in their cars, or carried pen / pencil notebooks. The requirements to have that information available away from the office haven't changed.
Safari, ichat, etc run in the user space -- thus no amount of exploitable code will effect the system (although as mentioned they *might* be able to delete the user's home directory).
A privlidge escalation bug is the only thing that could effect the system as a whole -- and the amount of code subject to that potential is relatively small since the Mach kernel is the smallest of any commonly used OS.
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We aren't talking about a mom and pop shop. We are looking at a 400 person company. Manually compiling the payroll alone would be cost prohibitive.
Not to mention since he's a health care provider, the company is required to file their A/R electronically by HIPAA.
This has been in the hopper since pre 1.0. But Calc still hasn't implemented basic useability functions that were present in Visicalc and every spreadsheet since. Meaning that spreadsheet power users can't easily start formulas with the numeric keypad.
Accounting firms get paid tens of millions of dollars to come up with tax hedges. It isn't all that obvious what they are doing in many cases.
For instance, one older tax hedge -- not listed specifically in any laws -- involved forming a specific type of investment trust which purchased secured deed liens bonds of oil piplines, then reselling the interests in the trust. Using this method, the income from said trusts could be treated as operating (rather than investment) income by the holders in due course. This allowed them to prevent required liquidation (and subsequent taxation) of retained earnings in a C corp which had since converted to an S corp.
If 1 click puchasing counts as non-obvious, the above is not even questionable.
Comcast had random internet slowdowns lasting from 12 hrs to a week or more, at least once a month. Even with documentation (ping times to internal servers & google), they refused to even acknowledge the problem.
Comcast was much faster when it worked, but I needed something better than dialup on a random basis.
Learning excel/word/etc -- what is commonly considered "computer sci" is a waste of time. Learning actual computer science -- alogorithms, logic, etc -- doesn't even require a computer, much an up to date one. You can learn computer science on a chalk board and with a proto language.
Wal-Mart's made with pride campaign meant that if your product was the exact same price or cheaper than the Chinese or Mexican product, it would be carried. One penny more and it was out.
Wal-Mart was forced to discontinue the campaign after a slew of state AG's sued them for misleading advertising.
In our local (Southeastern US) landfill, the tipping fee is $10.51/ton. At 3,000 tons / day, your looking at an extra 960k/month in revenue.
claim to be the actual desecendents of Abraham (which Jesus claimed as well) -- no spirituality involved. Male Jews according to legend would have the exact same Y chromosome as Abraham carried unless a male ancestor was Jewish by conversion. This would mean for instance that all Levites and CoHain would have the same Y chromosome (which amazingly enough, about 50% of CoHain do). Christians never claimed blood descent as far as I know (although early Christians who were Jewish did, but it had nothing to do with being Christian). Christians as far as I know consider themselves the spiritual descendents of Abraham.
That said, the religious status (priest/Levite, Cohain), tribe, and inheritance are all passed through the father. For instance, David was the scion of Saul. His mother was irrelavent to his being King of Isreal.
SSN's are essential for extending credit (credit reporting), which most universities do. They are also needed for accessing financial aid (VA, Federal Student Loans, etc).
That being said, grand juries are essentially useless (I say this as having served on one).
They make no determination of the law or potential defenses (the equivalent of jury instructions given at trial). They are only told one side of the story (by the DA's & Cops).
In this case, the GJ could have gone something like this:
The real issue is that we need some reforms in the GJ system.
Yep, but after you exit BK, sell the house, and you have X million in cash.
Note -- this applies to civil proceedings. Criminal forfieture laws are different.
In addition, copyright length is severely restricted when compared to the US and the rest of Europe (for instance, all works pre 1975 are in the public domain).
Finally, Russian law considers internet distribution equivalent to radio distribution in the US. Meaning that songwriters are entitled to royalties -- but not artists. If your a songwriter, you should contact ROMS -- as there is likely some money waiting for you.
Some (not all) implementations of captia use a voice synthesizer to speak the letters in question. As a non-blind person, I find this easier than reading some of the more obsure ones.
The Internet Worm of 1988 -- Introduction by Francis Litterio
The below document tells the story of the Internet Worm of 1988 and how it effectively shut down the Internet. I didn't write it, but it's hard to find it on the net these days, so I offer it here on the theory that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I remember when it happened. It was a big deal to computer people like me, but in 1988 the Internet was unknown even to the most sophisticated media reporters, and the World Wide Web had not been invented yet. I remember the NBC Evening News devoting less than 30 seconds to the topic. If an equally severe disruption of the Internet were to happen today, the President of the United States would probably hold a press conference to calm the nation.
Google Cache to the Article by Don Seeley, Univ. of Utah
For truely small companies, my suggestion would be to ask your CPA to do it -- or for suggestions on someone who can.
Somewhere in there, you will have a credit analyst. Make friends with this person. They will have access to Dun & Bradstreet reports, paydex scores, and a host of other information about the hosting provider. They are the best people in most companies to research other companies -- because that's what they do for a living.
In a smaller company, it might make the most sense to speak to the department head/CFO, because you don't want their normal sales analysis, but rather a dependability analysis (similar, uses many of the same things, but not automated).
If you have questions, ask for CPA certified financials -- or at least a letter of attestation from a CPA firm that says they own/lease the multiple facilities, lines, etc. and that the company and pricipals are financially sound.
+5+22+R50C3 should be a valid formula without touching the = key. The reason for this is that it allows you to use the numeric keypad -- and the = button isn't part of it.
Another issue is its formula handling. All spreadsheets since Visicalc recongize any of the numeric operations (+ - / *) as the beginning of a formula -- Calc doesn't (it only recongizes the = sign).
The telco's problem with VOIP is that it kills their local monopoly. The cable people love VOIP -- but only if your using their service and not a 3rd party like Vonage or doing it yourself through Astrisk.
There is no network in most nursing homes, and most hospitals won't allow their doctor's (or any staff) direct access to the internet and the ability to run something like TightVNC & SSH. A physician who downloads their currently hospitalized / nursing home bound patient charts to their laptop has no other way to do it -- other than printing it all out and carrying it by hand. I would also argue that its safer to do it this way than to open a port onto the internet with a physicians entire patient database.
HD encryption and good password protection is essential -- but to be honest I've seen more private health information leaked by social engineering attacks or database administrator's not following rules than I have from stolen laptops.
I bring up this industry because I'm most familiar with it -- but could see it applicable in others too (insurance adjuster in New Orleans comes to mind).
Your assuming an internet connection -- try again.
I don't know what world you live in, but people need access to sensitive data on their laptops -- espcially if they are in an area that doesn't have internet / communications availability.
You can take precautions such as encrypting the disk -- but many people can't do their jobs without access to that information.
Before computers, people often put files in their cars, or carried pen / pencil notebooks. The requirements to have that information available away from the office haven't changed.
Safari, ichat, etc run in the user space -- thus no amount of exploitable code will effect the system (although as mentioned they *might* be able to delete the user's home directory). A privlidge escalation bug is the only thing that could effect the system as a whole -- and the amount of code subject to that potential is relatively small since the Mach kernel is the smallest of any commonly used OS.