On the other hand, if you're really that good, just take some vacations and make yourself notice (or rather, your absence). Took 3 weeks in a row a couple of years ago, and my boss plead not to take so many days again.
Oh, and no, I'm not a coder, but what he wrote was quite familiar.
You'll want to be really sure you are as valuable as you think you are, before doing this. Otherwise, it may have the opposite of the intended effect..
And that's why the American legal system is FUTA. In most sensible countries, you *can* sue them *if* you have experienced a major problem due to their behaviour - eg, if you can show that you have lost money/posessions/safety etc as a direct result of someone else having access to your emails. You can't just go "I feel slightly aggrieved that someone read my email - give me a bajillion dollars!!!!".
Spoken like someone whose only expose to the American legal system is via television...
Varies by car model. BUt also not hard to fix if you ever jumpered the positive and negative terminals on a 9V (the level of technical knowledge needed isn't any higher...)
Professors are a funny lot. In all of those debunking claims, nobody actually... you know... tried to boil a frog. Instead, they theorize about it and proclaim their stances quite loudly...
While I understand that submitter's company has spent a lot of time and money on this, he surely must realize that there are dozens or hundreds of others trying to do the same thing; and nobody is served by having to choose from 10 or more identical copies of the same book released by different publishers. This isn't a matter of Amazon trying to control what people read - it's a matter of trying to keep the "noise level" down for their platform.
The fact that other 'publishers' are using the versions of the work that his company produced is unfortunately the nature of "freely available", and how a certain subset of the population tries to capitalize on it.
It's entirely possible they will lose all Federal support. Breaching HIPPA is a big deal.
In your imagination it is. Can you name one significant case where HIPPA was enforced with any real severity? I'll even give you time to google it...
Thanks, needed that few extra seconds - not one,
but many. And those are just some basic stats (and a specific case) that was found with a three second google search.
This is just spiffy. Maybe next release, they'll decide to support CLDC/J2ME so that the tons of existing phone applications can be used without rewriting for Google's custom Java & API.
Because there aren't any other nuclear facilities in the States? Personally I think they're in DC so that they can spend a significant portion of their money on employees (dealing with higher cost of living) and facilities (exorbitant land/rent costs in DC). It's just the smart way to start a business on limited funds.
Or... there's something more to it than what we're being shown here. Take your pick...
Especially - and here's what I don't get - in Washington DC, the place with some of the highest business real estate costs, and the highest cost of living in the nation. Something smells funny here, and I'm not talking about melted plastic.
In 3...2...1... queue the replies about how twitter is only good if you want to know every time someone takes a crap, so what the hell is the point anyway... .
Shot some impromptu amateur porn with one today, and all the important bits look fine. I'm 100% serious, the mood came upon us and it was handy. It's not 1080p, but as the old saying goes, the best camera is the one you have with you when you need it.:)
If by "us" you mean "Mary Palm and her five sisters" -- as seems implied by "handy" -- it doesn't count as porn.
Wow - people sure can read a lot into a short post. "there's a really good chance" hardly sounds like an accusation or even a claim of proof to me. Just speculation.
Now let's take a look at what you're saying I said. What I said: GP probably wouldn't have made his post if IE hadn't come out on top. What you said: there was one case that IE didn't come out on top, and it wasn't mentioned in the summary - and that somehow, this is something I accused GP of doing?
It's also worth pointing out that the summary is quite accurate: "Overall, Internet Explorer and Firefox + AdBlock consistently place near the top, with Chrome following closely behind".
So... in other words, what the hell are you going on about?
Note: no personal interest here. I haven't used IE in years and don't plan to start.
I don't care whether my browser is power efficient or not i'm still not using it online without virus protection on a windows machine.
It's amazing the things people will put up with, when they're well-trained enough. They'll even adapt to the point where they don't notice the performance hit on nearly everything they do. I've been running antivirus free since I started computing - they use too many resources, and can even do more harm than good -- interfering with normal file operations at bad times, and similar.
I use Windows as my primary desktop; and I run a passive scan monthly or so under linux boot to make sure I didn't do something stupid. So far, the only viruses I've gotten were those I deliberately installed on a VM to take a closer look at.
Viruses are completely , 100% avoidable, without the burden of AV -- just by using a bit of caution and what should be common sense for anybody who savvies computers.
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...so the MS astroturf team has decided to call it a "botnet".
I'm curious--how can I tell when an idea is being promoted by the "MS astroturf team" and not by regular not-so-clueful reporters that might mistakenly use the wrong term?
Dude, this is slashdot. That means that anything with a potentially pro-microsoft spin obviously came straight from MS PR... Erm, M$ PR. Shit, I think they're about to catch onto me too, I hope nobody saw that...
First, I don't believe it is against the law. (Bribes in goods/monetary exchanges/contracts are, I just think that reviews fall into the grey area.)
Second, the "bribe" made no request or attempt at being designed to influence the reviews. Its a publicity stunt, not really a bribe because they didn't ask for anything in return.
Not a bribe - true, but only because they don't specifically make a request. However, they get plenty in return: outrage and a huge amount of free publicity. Truly beautifully done.
Frankly, I think the note included with the money presents a false dichotomy... but I'm guessing/hoping most of the peopel receiving it would have realized that too.
Slashdot Mirror
On the other hand, if you're really that good, just take some vacations and make yourself notice (or rather, your absence). Took 3 weeks in a row a couple of years ago, and my boss plead not to take so many days again.
Oh, and no, I'm not a coder, but what he wrote was quite familiar.
You'll want to be really sure you are as valuable as you think you are, before doing this. Otherwise, it may have the opposite of the intended effect..
Sigh. *exposure.
And that's why the American legal system is FUTA. In most sensible countries, you *can* sue them *if* you have experienced a major problem due to their behaviour - eg, if you can show that you have lost money/posessions/safety etc as a direct result of someone else having access to your emails. You can't just go "I feel slightly aggrieved that someone read my email - give me a bajillion dollars!!!!".
Spoken like someone whose only expose to the American legal system is via television...
D'oh. Yep, that'd be a read fail on my part.
Varies by car model. BUt also not hard to fix if you ever jumpered the positive and negative terminals on a 9V (the level of technical knowledge needed isn't any higher...)
I wish I could give you a "+1 literate" mod point.
I wish I could give myself a +1 I read wikipedia too mod.
es, I know the frog boiling thing is a myth
Professors are a funny lot. In all of those debunking claims, nobody actually... you know... tried to boil a frog. Instead, they theorize about it and proclaim their stances quite loudly...
The fact that other 'publishers' are using the versions of the work that his company produced is unfortunately the nature of "freely available", and how a certain subset of the population tries to capitalize on it.
In your imagination it is. Can you name one significant case where HIPPA was enforced with any real severity? I'll even give you time to google it...
Thanks, needed that few extra seconds - not one, but many. And those are just some basic stats (and a specific case) that was found with a three second google search.
I see nothing critical of hippos in that!
This is just spiffy. Maybe next release, they'll decide to support CLDC /J2ME so that the tons of existing phone applications can be used without rewriting for Google's custom Java & API.
Wow... I know that usually people don't read the article... sometimes they don't read the summary... but to not even read the title?
Or... there's something more to it than what we're being shown here. Take your pick...
Especially - and here's what I don't get - in Washington DC, the place with some of the highest business real estate costs, and the highest cost of living in the nation. Something smells funny here, and I'm not talking about melted plastic.
In 3...2...1... queue the replies about how twitter is only good if you want to know every time someone takes a crap, so what the hell is the point anyway... .
Shot some impromptu amateur porn with one today, and all the important bits look fine. I'm 100% serious, the mood came upon us and it was handy. It's not 1080p, but as the old saying goes, the best camera is the one you have with you when you need it. :)
If by "us" you mean "Mary Palm and her five sisters" -- as seems implied by "handy" -- it doesn't count as porn.
Anyway, it's pretty clear it's an overgeneralization - that was half the point ;)
Now let's take a look at what you're saying I said. What I said: GP probably wouldn't have made his post if IE hadn't come out on top. What you said: there was one case that IE didn't come out on top, and it wasn't mentioned in the summary - and that somehow, this is something I accused GP of doing?
It's also worth pointing out that the summary is quite accurate: "Overall, Internet Explorer and Firefox + AdBlock consistently place near the top, with Chrome following closely behind".
So... in other words, what the hell are you going on about?
Note: no personal interest here. I haven't used IE in years and don't plan to start.
I don't care whether my browser is power efficient or not i'm still not using it online without virus protection on a windows machine.
It's amazing the things people will put up with, when they're well-trained enough. They'll even adapt to the point where they don't notice the performance hit on nearly everything they do. I've been running antivirus free since I started computing - they use too many resources, and can even do more harm than good -- interfering with normal file operations at bad times, and similar.
I use Windows as my primary desktop; and I run a passive scan monthly or so under linux boot to make sure I didn't do something stupid. So far, the only viruses I've gotten were those I deliberately installed on a VM to take a closer look at.
Viruses are completely , 100% avoidable, without the burden of AV -- just by using a bit of caution and what should be common sense for anybody who savvies computers. .
Funny that this was modded flamebait. Even though there's a really good chance that if FF had come out on top, GP post wouldn't have been made....
...so the MS astroturf team has decided to call it a "botnet".
I'm curious--how can I tell when an idea is being promoted by the "MS astroturf team" and not by regular not-so-clueful reporters that might mistakenly use the wrong term?
Dude, this is slashdot. That means that anything with a potentially pro-microsoft spin obviously came straight from MS PR... Erm, M$ PR. Shit, I think they're about to catch onto me too, I hope nobody saw that...
Has yahoo been hacked? I get http://m.www.yahoo.com/ (notice the m)
m.no, m.I m.don't m.see m.any m.problems m.here. m.Check m.your m.settings?
C'mon, you can admit it. I am not the only one in this crowd who initially read the headline as Scientists Clone Oldest Living Orgasm.
So in future, we'll use shampoo that maximizes the energy production of our hair?
This idea invented by shampoo.
First, I don't believe it is against the law. (Bribes in goods/monetary exchanges/contracts are, I just think that reviews fall into the grey area.) Second, the "bribe" made no request or attempt at being designed to influence the reviews. Its a publicity stunt, not really a bribe because they didn't ask for anything in return.
Not a bribe - true, but only because they don't specifically make a request. However, they get plenty in return: outrage and a huge amount of free publicity. Truly beautifully done.
Frankly, I think the note included with the money presents a false dichotomy... but I'm guessing/hoping most of the peopel receiving it would have realized that too.