I don't think the value of this data is tied to the fact they know a particular car belongs to a certain person, I think their plan is to try and sell traffic congestion information to GPS companies for real-time updates on route times.
While there could be a lot of money in the 'Where did my cheating husband go with his Corvette last night when he said he was working late?' market, I'm not sure how OnStar could advertise such a service and then sell cars to philanderers and criminals. On the other hand, it would make a heck of a lojack alternative!
This law blocked, as I understood it, any form of social media communication between teachers and their minor-age students at their schools that could not be monitored by the parents and administrators.
School-run social media sites which DO allow for parental and school administrator oversight WERE allowed.
School-hosted email accounts which DO allow for parental and school administrator oversight WERE allowed.
Teachers can still talk with students after class, in the hallways, in the cafeteria, on the playground, etc. To suggest that teachers need PRIVATEcommunication with students that neither their parents nor employers can know what is said between them is simply insanity.
Imagine you are a parent of an attractive 14 year-old girl, and you go to school to pick up your daughter and you find her in a teacher's office, with the door closed, and you are prevented from entering the room until they are done speaking... I bet you'd wonder what they were talking about - imagine the teacher saying "It's none of your business." That is effectively what the teachers argued for in this case.
Simple question - Why do teachers who work in the same building the students are in some 200 days a year and can interact with them in person, in private, on campus NEED the ability to interact with students secretly on social media websites?
I think these teachers place more importance on being "special friends" with their students, not teaching them - I can think of no other reason why teachers need "private" communication with their students...
The magic of extremely low cost, low-power CPUs is starting to wane - a couple years ago most server were underutilized, then there were two approaches to 'correcting' that problem: a) lower-cost, lower-power servers (Atom, ARM, other) and b) virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, etc). I would argue at the corporate level that virtualization is winning out, and low-powered servers are finding use in one-off installations (home servers, workgroup appliances, and the like).
SGI/Rackable Atom-based deskside supercomputer aside, when all costs are considered, a multi-core server still makes a lot of sense.
You may want to re-price those VMWare licenses - they just revised the terms. I don't think you can implement VMWare on 5 boxes for $10K, ignoring the cost of the underlying hardware...
"What this country really needs is constitutional amendment to bring the US in line with other nations like Brazil that have enshrined the right to privacy in their constitutions"
Privacy is enshrined in our Constitution as well, take a look... Lotta good that does us!
Data will leak, period. You can work really, really hard to make sure it doesn't, but eventually it will leak.
Increased security only makes it harder, not impossible, and when the data does leak, the companies will be immune from prosecution, since they did everything they were required to do.
So your argument is that someone that can't handle a system that only requires you to dial a phone number and press send would be better off navigating A computer OS, email client and Internet connectivity? The fax machine is one phone number more complex than a copier...
Only one button more complex than a telephone, near-instant delivery, confirmation, and delivered (typically) as a paper document ready to be used at the receiving end. It also accommodates the desire of either the sender or receiver to send/receive the document as either a paper or electronic document.
What's the shortfall again? Oh yeah, it doesn't make use of the complex computer (AKA virus host) everyone is so fond of...
I have no problem accepting faxes from strangers, email attachments from strangers not so much...
I find the quizzical statement in the posting description a bit disingenuous - the fax machine, for all it's archaic attributes, is only slightly more complex than a touch-tone phone, a 1940's technology widely rolled out in the 1960's.
If you start with paper, FAX is easy - if you start with an electronic document, email is easy. The commenter obviously deals with electronic documents, not paper ones. Email is neither simpler nor cheaper.
To send an email attachment you need to scan the page, write an email, attach the scan to the email, send the email, hope the email isn't too large for the recipient, hope the recipient gets the email, and the recipient has to open the attachment and print the email.
To fax a paper document you simply drop it in a hopper, dial the phone number and hit the 'send' button - all the above is had led for you, with a paper document popping out the other end.
Of course, FAXing is also cheaper - unlimited domestic calling is common today, and cheaper than broadband Internet OR dial-up Internet access and a landline phone. You can typically FAX a document cheaper than you can send it via snail mail, and it has the added bonus of delivery confirmation AND near-instant delivery.
Live below sea level (New Orleans)... Near a lake (Pontchartrain) & river (Mississippi)... Next to a large body of water (Gulf of Mexico)... Where Hurricanes are a common occurance.
I wonder if there is anyother way to keep safe & dry without resorting to living on land-locked boats?
Another nice option would be to swap out the AMD 560 CPU & MB bundle and instead use Microcenter's i3-2100 & MSI MB for $110 (MB is $9.99 when bought w/ CPU). Also, if you go with the same power spec case w/ power supply and forgo optical drive, you can still hit $200 (+/- couple dollars). Maybe even with enough left over for a 4 gig USB key to boot OS install from.
After reading the article, I went to one of my favorite retailers microcenter.com and put together an i3-2100 system w/ 4 gigs of ram (not 2, as in the article), 500 gig hd, and chassis w/power supply for a couple bucks under $200 BEFORE tax, $205 after tax.
The key is that the retailer has a $9.99 MSI motherboard bundle that makes the i3-2100 CPU and MSI MB together cost $110, and they had a sale on a 2x 2 Gig DDR3 DIMM kit for $19.99. No rebates.
I built a personal system with the same CPU & MB, but with 8 gigs of RAM (didn't need it, but hey, it was $35!) and I runs very nicely, doesn't feel at all like a compromise system to me (but I'm not a gamer). My system clocked in at $250, but I added the larger RAM and an optical drive.
I didn't realize that Reverend Martin Luther King's efforts were merely a commercial endeavor, much like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks with their little mouse...
So I guess that means the Civil Rights movement in the 50's and 60's was really just a very effective viral advertizing campaign?!
The $800K was to offset lost donations to the MLK "King Center" in Atlanta - one charity had to offset the losses another charity suffers when they start fundraising.
The Monument group raised $116 Million so far (fundraising started the week of 9/11) - the $800K was an "affordable" expense in their $120 Million budget.
The payment was for use of passages and likeness - they didn't copy his books, they put a few sentences on marble slabs - in another context, they'd be considered "fair use".
And you absolutely can find the speech on Youtube - it's in two pieces - I found it the other day.
No one begrudges the King Family copyright protection on their patriarch's published books & articles, but many have a problem with the family's efforts to make it HARDER for students to get access to his speeches by putting them behind a paywall...
The law specifically prohibited PRIVATE communication between teachers and their students that could not be monitored/tracked by the school district and the student's parents. School-issued email, and other non-private methods are fine.
Why, exactly, does a teacher NEED the ability to hold private conversations outside the watchful eye of the child's parent?
Teachers have access to the students in real life 200 days a year, why do they need to be able to, for example, text their students?
That kids like/prefer Facebook isn't a reasonable argument.
As healthcare costs increase, who should shoulder the burden of the increase? The employer bears 100% of the burden currently (for these employees), if the costs go up, Verizon should either lower the benefits provided or lower salaries to make up the increase in benefit costs.
Were the employees willing to talk about a reduction in benefits to maintin their current zero-contribution level?
Were the employees willing to talk about a reduction in salary to maintain the same benefits and current zero-contribution level?
What were the employees willing to do to accomodate the increased cost of their healthcare coverage?
Your refusal to give Verizon "one red cent" helps the workers how, exactly?
BTW, any chance the workers own shares in Verizon? Might they not find themselves on the receiving end of that disbursement to the shareholders that, let's remember, own the company?
Were the concessions sought unique to this group of workers, or universal to all Verizon employees? If universal, why didn't more strike? If just this one group of 45K workers, why just them?
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I don't think the value of this data is tied to the fact they know a particular car belongs to a certain person, I think their plan is to try and sell traffic congestion information to GPS companies for real-time updates on route times.
While there could be a lot of money in the 'Where did my cheating husband go with his Corvette last night when he said he was working late?' market, I'm not sure how OnStar could advertise such a service and then sell cars to philanderers and criminals. On the other hand, it would make a heck of a lojack alternative!
This law blocked, as I understood it, any form of social media communication between teachers and their minor-age students at their schools that could not be monitored by the parents and administrators.
School-run social media sites which DO allow for parental and school administrator oversight WERE allowed.
School-hosted email accounts which DO allow for parental and school administrator oversight WERE allowed.
Teachers can still talk with students after class, in the hallways, in the cafeteria, on the playground, etc. To suggest that teachers need PRIVATEcommunication with students that neither their parents nor employers can know what is said between them is simply insanity.
Imagine you are a parent of an attractive 14 year-old girl, and you go to school to pick up your daughter and you find her in a teacher's office, with the door closed, and you are prevented from entering the room until they are done speaking... I bet you'd wonder what they were talking about - imagine the teacher saying "It's none of your business." That is effectively what the teachers argued for in this case.
Simple question - Why do teachers who work in the same building the students are in some 200 days a year and can interact with them in person, in private, on campus NEED the ability to interact with students secretly on social media websites?
I think these teachers place more importance on being "special friends" with their students, not teaching them - I can think of no other reason why teachers need "private" communication with their students...
The magic of extremely low cost, low-power CPUs is starting to wane - a couple years ago most server were underutilized, then there were two approaches to 'correcting' that problem: a) lower-cost, lower-power servers (Atom, ARM, other) and b) virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, etc). I would argue at the corporate level that virtualization is winning out, and low-powered servers are finding use in one-off installations (home servers, workgroup appliances, and the like).
SGI/Rackable Atom-based deskside supercomputer aside, when all costs are considered, a multi-core server still makes a lot of sense.
You may want to re-price those VMWare licenses - they just revised the terms. I don't think you can implement VMWare on 5 boxes for $10K, ignoring the cost of the underlying hardware...
Privacy is enshrined in our Constitution as well, take a look... Lotta good that does us!
Data will leak, period. You can work really, really hard to make sure it doesn't, but eventually it will leak.
Increased security only makes it harder, not impossible, and when the data does leak, the companies will be immune from prosecution, since they did everything they were required to do.
So your argument is that someone that can't handle a system that only requires you to dial a phone number and press send would be better off navigating A computer OS, email client and Internet connectivity? The fax machine is one phone number more complex than a copier...
Only one button more complex than a telephone, near-instant delivery, confirmation, and delivered (typically) as a paper document ready to be used at the receiving end. It also accommodates the desire of either the sender or receiver to send/receive the document as either a paper or electronic document.
What's the shortfall again? Oh yeah, it doesn't make use of the complex computer (AKA virus host) everyone is so fond of...
I have no problem accepting faxes from strangers, email attachments from strangers not so much...
I find the quizzical statement in the posting description a bit disingenuous - the fax machine, for all it's archaic attributes, is only slightly more complex than a touch-tone phone, a 1940's technology widely rolled out in the 1960's.
If you start with paper, FAX is easy - if you start with an electronic document, email is easy. The commenter obviously deals with electronic documents, not paper ones. Email is neither simpler nor cheaper.
To send an email attachment you need to scan the page, write an email, attach the scan to the email, send the email, hope the email isn't too large for the recipient, hope the recipient gets the email, and the recipient has to open the attachment and print the email.
To fax a paper document you simply drop it in a hopper, dial the phone number and hit the 'send' button - all the above is had led for you, with a paper document popping out the other end.
Of course, FAXing is also cheaper - unlimited domestic calling is common today, and cheaper than broadband Internet OR dial-up Internet access and a landline phone. You can typically FAX a document cheaper than you can send it via snail mail, and it has the added bonus of delivery confirmation AND near-instant delivery.
The Fortran Coloring Book, with the program listings in Creative Computing and 101 Basic Games tied for a close second...
Live below sea level (New Orleans)... Near a lake (Pontchartrain) & river (Mississippi)... Next to a large body of water (Gulf of Mexico)... Where Hurricanes are a common occurance.
I wonder if there is anyother way to keep safe & dry without resorting to living on land-locked boats?
To quote Sam Kinnison - Move!
The HD cable comes with the MB.
The CPU heatsink comes with the retail pack CPU.
If you shrink the HD to 320 from 500 Gig, you free up an estimated $10 to cover cost of a 4 Gig USB key to install from.
Another nice option would be to swap out the AMD 560 CPU & MB bundle and instead use Microcenter's i3-2100 & MSI MB for $110 (MB is $9.99 when bought w/ CPU). Also, if you go with the same power spec case w/ power supply and forgo optical drive, you can still hit $200 (+/- couple dollars). Maybe even with enough left over for a 4 gig USB key to boot OS install from.
After reading the article, I went to one of my favorite retailers microcenter.com and put together an i3-2100 system w/ 4 gigs of ram (not 2, as in the article), 500 gig hd, and chassis w/power supply for a couple bucks under $200 BEFORE tax, $205 after tax.
The key is that the retailer has a $9.99 MSI motherboard bundle that makes the i3-2100 CPU and MSI MB together cost $110, and they had a sale on a 2x 2 Gig DDR3 DIMM kit for $19.99. No rebates.
I built a personal system with the same CPU & MB, but with 8 gigs of RAM (didn't need it, but hey, it was $35!) and I runs very nicely, doesn't feel at all like a compromise system to me (but I'm not a gamer). My system clocked in at $250, but I added the larger RAM and an optical drive.
He had at least one good niece - Alveda King
I didn't realize that Reverend Martin Luther King's efforts were merely a commercial endeavor, much like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks with their little mouse...
So I guess that means the Civil Rights movement in the 50's and 60's was really just a very effective viral advertizing campaign?!
I never knew that - thanks!
The $800K was to offset lost donations to the MLK "King Center" in Atlanta - one charity had to offset the losses another charity suffers when they start fundraising.
The Monument group raised $116 Million so far (fundraising started the week of 9/11) - the $800K was an "affordable" expense in their $120 Million budget.
The payment was for use of passages and likeness - they didn't copy his books, they put a few sentences on marble slabs - in another context, they'd be considered "fair use".
And you absolutely can find the speech on Youtube - it's in two pieces - I found it the other day.
No one begrudges the King Family copyright protection on their patriarch's published books & articles, but many have a problem with the family's efforts to make it HARDER for students to get access to his speeches by putting them behind a paywall...
Quick, go get Tim Geithner
The law specifically prohibited PRIVATE communication between teachers and their students that could not be monitored/tracked by the school district and the student's parents. School-issued email, and other non-private methods are fine.
Why, exactly, does a teacher NEED the ability to hold private conversations outside the watchful eye of the child's parent?
Teachers have access to the students in real life 200 days a year, why do they need to be able to, for example, text their students?
That kids like/prefer Facebook isn't a reasonable argument.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Bilderbergers out of your post...
The "scabs" are mostly fellow Verizon employees, that is how Verizon and other large emplyers cope when the union employees choose to picket.
As healthcare costs increase, who should shoulder the burden of the increase? The employer bears 100% of the burden currently (for these employees), if the costs go up, Verizon should either lower the benefits provided or lower salaries to make up the increase in benefit costs.
Were the employees willing to talk about a reduction in benefits to maintin their current zero-contribution level?
Were the employees willing to talk about a reduction in salary to maintain the same benefits and current zero-contribution level?
What were the employees willing to do to accomodate the increased cost of their healthcare coverage?
I suspect, nothing.
Your refusal to give Verizon "one red cent" helps the workers how, exactly?
BTW, any chance the workers own shares in Verizon? Might they not find themselves on the receiving end of that disbursement to the shareholders that, let's remember, own the company?
Were the concessions sought unique to this group of workers, or universal to all Verizon employees? If universal, why didn't more strike? If just this one group of 45K workers, why just them?
I don't think that represents a significant portion of LJ readership...
I can get a 100 page magazine delivered to my door for $1/issue (or less), how will a local vendor compete?
First, they'll charge sales tax
Second, Postage will not be bulk mail rates
Third, the paper costs alone will exceed the target ($1/issue)
Smaller printers are more expensive per page, paper is cheaper by the ton, and bulk rate postage is a huge discount.
They've decided to devolve to a premium website, just as accessible as a free website, but will their content support $2.56/month?
And their content will update monthly?