Allow a tiered Internet to be created, but the Telecomms, by regulation, must keep a certain level of quality of service to the most basic of tiers, and if the market will bear increasing costs of the higher tiers, allow that to take place. Those that want that higher tier of service will subsidize those of you who prefer the usual way of getting your bits across.
Ahh, but since the implementation of the accounts is abstracted from our control, who is to say that the data for both accounts happens to live on the same HD array? And if it goes kaput, our data is still gone! This is akin to creating two partitions on a single HD, one your working copy, the other backup and the physical disc gets corrupted. Both go with it.
Yes, but you can only send emails that are a maximum of 20MB. I'd love to have to split up a bunch of archives in 20MB chunks...
That aside, the mere fact that nobody can be held liable for the lost of data and that backups are likely not made, I wouldn't feel bery comfortable with the data being there as a means of recovery.
The VM3 is two-toned, with the palm side of the mouse coated with a rubber-like substance for a better grip, and the other half sporting a glossy, almost grainy surface.
If the iPhone were available on Verizon's network...
That's who Apple went to first. When negotiations broke down, they went to AT&T. AT&T had to bend over backwards quite a bit to get the deal, but it wasn't Apple's first choice.
It's obvious that part of the cost of insurance makes up the risk due to accident/liability claims, and it is also true that this segment is more prone to those sorts of risks. However, the population taken in its entirety also has quite a substantial fraud risk as well. So, when an insurance company decides to underwrite people for insurance, it must 'balance the economic equation' so as to compensate for those who wish to do harm to the system. This happens in all industries.
Take grocery stores, for example. Margins are very, very tight on food items. If someone steals from the store, then they must adjust prices to compensate for that theft. This is why Wal-Mart goes to such lengths to at least provide the illusion of security (who the hell knows if there really are cameras in those black bubbles), because the cost of equipment helps evade shrinkage, which then allows them to keep prices lower.
Unfortunately, we can't (not that we'd want to even if we could) stick a camera inside every person's car to know exactly what's going on. So we have to project what anticipated losses we will incur because of fraud. Without giving out numbers, it's quite substantial.
So, when our ex-Dell friend encourages you to do dishonest things to get a new machine, just know that everyone else gets to pay for that, and like Karma, that will come back to bite you some day.
That and douchebag ideas like this make it so that consumers pay more for their product. Most of the cost of auto insurance is not because of risk of accident or liability, but the risk of fraud.
I still have in my possesion an ad that came with Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the late 80s/early 90s. It was an Intel 386/SX processor for nearly $1000. Just for the bloody chip! It's interesting that I can get a complete system for half that, now.
because I'm using the browser as a development tool, not as my general purpose browser. Sure, FF has its own problems, but why expose yourself with a beta browser out in the wild?
The big red button is too much of a temptation for my 18 mo. old child. The power button doesn't do anything if simply clicked when the computer is on, and the reset switch is this tiny innocuous button that (to him) doesn't look like it does anything. This, on the other hand, screams "PRESS ME!".
...owners who stream home games while traveling are breaking the law because it allows consumers to circumvent geographical boundaries
Anybody who tries to control digital content first ought to know that 1s and 0s do not know the meaning of geographical boundaries. If it can be represented by 1s and 0s, then any device instructed to know what said numbers mean will carry them.
As opposed to a portion of the purchase price going to DHL (or whatever shipping company Dell uses)? What I think he's aluding to, is not that Dell hands them a check to do business with them, but Wal-Mart is notorius for being cut-throat on getting the absolute best deal possible. Having visited their HQ in Bentonville, Arkansas, and speaking with all the dozens of corporate lackies that lick Wal-Mart's boots there, they all tell the same story: Wal-Mart drives a very hard bargain. What they get in larger distribution and volumes, Wal-Mart takes out by driving down their margins. That said, they all consistantly say that 'Wal-Mart is hard, but fair'.
How about creating systems whereby peoples' identities aren't stolen in the first place. How about not using a single unique identifier (SS#) to conduct all business, et all. This only addresses things after the fact.
Or is it because they're more ahead of the tech curve than their masters? I think the real problem is that those in charge thought they could solve problems with laptops, but instead created new ones that they had no clue how to deal with. I'm sure if the staff of said schools were qualified to be able to assist students, maybe they they ahve wouldn't seem such a big deal.
Unfortunately, the wikipedia article doesn't explain that Blue Frog decided against any sort of retaliation because 'they didn't feel that they had the right to bring their users into an all-out war with spammers'. Too bad. I think that they had positioned themselves to put a serious dent in the spam wars, and they ran off with their tail between their legs. Too bad, indeed.
That all DDoS attacks are for the purpose of extortion. Does nobody do these things simply because they just want to blackball someone anymore? No, this isn't the death of the DDoS.
Or, 5 years from now, when the operating system that the program was written for is no longer available, and you no longer have the tools to make your fair use copies
I'm sorry, but that's just the technology beast. Five years ago 3.5" floppies were still heavily used, but I would be hard pressed to even find a floppy drive. As long as you have that DVD, what's the issue of the format of any fair use copies. This becomes even more irrelevant if you can make fair-use duplicates of the DVD itself.
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so why not do this:
Allow a tiered Internet to be created, but the Telecomms, by regulation, must keep a certain level of quality of service to the most basic of tiers, and if the market will bear increasing costs of the higher tiers, allow that to take place. Those that want that higher tier of service will subsidize those of you who prefer the usual way of getting your bits across.
Ahh, but since the implementation of the accounts is abstracted from our control, who is to say that the data for both accounts happens to live on the same HD array? And if it goes kaput, our data is still gone! This is akin to creating two partitions on a single HD, one your working copy, the other backup and the physical disc gets corrupted. Both go with it.
Yes, but you can only send emails that are a maximum of 20MB. I'd love to have to split up a bunch of archives in 20MB chunks...
That aside, the mere fact that nobody can be held liable for the lost of data and that backups are likely not made, I wouldn't feel bery comfortable with the data being there as a means of recovery.
Put a racing stripe on that baby and I'm sold!
That's who Apple went to first. When negotiations broke down, they went to AT&T. AT&T had to bend over backwards quite a bit to get the deal, but it wasn't Apple's first choice.
Source? A well placed relative inside AT&T.
It's obvious that part of the cost of insurance makes up the risk due to accident/liability claims, and it is also true that this segment is more prone to those sorts of risks. However, the population taken in its entirety also has quite a substantial fraud risk as well. So, when an insurance company decides to underwrite people for insurance, it must 'balance the economic equation' so as to compensate for those who wish to do harm to the system. This happens in all industries.
Take grocery stores, for example. Margins are very, very tight on food items. If someone steals from the store, then they must adjust prices to compensate for that theft. This is why Wal-Mart goes to such lengths to at least provide the illusion of security (who the hell knows if there really are cameras in those black bubbles), because the cost of equipment helps evade shrinkage, which then allows them to keep prices lower.
Unfortunately, we can't (not that we'd want to even if we could) stick a camera inside every person's car to know exactly what's going on. So we have to project what anticipated losses we will incur because of fraud. Without giving out numbers, it's quite substantial.
So, when our ex-Dell friend encourages you to do dishonest things to get a new machine, just know that everyone else gets to pay for that, and like Karma, that will come back to bite you some day.
Kind of a chicken and egg, isn't it? While your comment makes sense, the support has to be there before the users will come.
As close as it is, It Just Has To Work(TM) isn't there.
Maybe because I work for an insurance company??? Just because it's not on Wikipedia...
That and douchebag ideas like this make it so that consumers pay more for their product. Most of the cost of auto insurance is not because of risk of accident or liability, but the risk of fraud.
At least the advertisement rendered correctly!
Oh.
I still have in my possesion an ad that came with Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the late 80s/early 90s. It was an Intel 386/SX processor for nearly $1000. Just for the bloody chip! It's interesting that I can get a complete system for half that, now.
because I'm using the browser as a development tool, not as my general purpose browser. Sure, FF has its own problems, but why expose yourself with a beta browser out in the wild?
Man, and I thought that illegal filesharing caused Vladimir Putin to point missles at Europe...
Ahh, you obviously never seen a repo man with one of these.
The big red button is too much of a temptation for my 18 mo. old child. The power button doesn't do anything if simply clicked when the computer is on, and the reset switch is this tiny innocuous button that (to him) doesn't look like it does anything. This, on the other hand, screams "PRESS ME!".
...owners who stream home games while traveling are breaking the law because it allows consumers to circumvent geographical boundariesAnybody who tries to control digital content first ought to know that 1s and 0s do not know the meaning of geographical boundaries. If it can be represented by 1s and 0s, then any device instructed to know what said numbers mean will carry them.
that the people were also taking daily doses of snake oil too.
How about creating systems whereby peoples' identities aren't stolen in the first place. How about not using a single unique identifier (SS#) to conduct all business, et all. This only addresses things after the fact.
Or is it because they're more ahead of the tech curve than their masters? I think the real problem is that those in charge thought they could solve problems with laptops, but instead created new ones that they had no clue how to deal with. I'm sure if the staff of said schools were qualified to be able to assist students, maybe they they ahve wouldn't seem such a big deal.
Unfortunately, the wikipedia article doesn't explain that Blue Frog decided against any sort of retaliation because 'they didn't feel that they had the right to bring their users into an all-out war with spammers'. Too bad. I think that they had positioned themselves to put a serious dent in the spam wars, and they ran off with their tail between their legs. Too bad, indeed.
That all DDoS attacks are for the purpose of extortion. Does nobody do these things simply because they just want to blackball someone anymore? No, this isn't the death of the DDoS.
What? Like I did yesterday when I saw it on digg? ;)
I'm sorry, but that's just the technology beast. Five years ago 3.5" floppies were still heavily used, but I would be hard pressed to even find a floppy drive. As long as you have that DVD, what's the issue of the format of any fair use copies. This becomes even more irrelevant if you can make fair-use duplicates of the DVD itself.