I was once given a speeding ticket for going 89 on a highway in VA, during the middle of the day in the middle of the week - it was in a lesser populated part of the state so the road was virtually empty. 80mph+ in VA is considered reckless, so a court appearance was mandatory.
I showed up, the judge asked the cop what happened. Cop told him. Judge asked what traffic conditions were like (I suspect he knew that was a long, boring stretch of road;) The cop made a point of saying that the traffic was heavy. Judge asked me if anything the cop said was incorrect... and all I could reply with was " not in a way that I can prove, but my recollection is that there was almost no traffic at all". (Because I damn sure wouldn't have been driving fast if there were heavy traffic.)
Apparently the judge was not an idiot, and let me off with a "take a safe driving course, get no furhter tickets for six months, and this won't show up on your record". Probably because he was well aware of what traffic was like at that time of day. My otherwise clean driving record didn't hurt either.
I was lucky in that case, because the judge had a clue. But I literally had no defense when the cop lied [under oath] about such a trivial thing as traffic - it was my word against his. His lie could have cost me 6 mos-2 years in prison under VA law.
Are you aware that when a cop writes a ticket for a broken tail-light, that is equivalent to when a cop arrests someone for murder?
Actually a citation is legally different from an arrest. Not that this invalidates your point (it doesn't as far as I know, but IANAL... ), but I'm just pointing out that a ticket is not equivalent to an arrest.
Seriously, I think this is good - as long as it's clearly marked on the box/digital 'packaging' so that people can make informed choices, let them. They'll lose customers, they'll also gain revenue - and they (and the market) can decide in the end if the revenues gained from second-hand sales make up for the revenue lost in first-hand sales.
I think it will more than do so - most people are basically inconsiderate in the end. If they get their gameplay out of it, they're really not going to worry about what the second-hand purchaser is getting when they go to gamestop to make their trade-ins. I suspect we'll see the second hand games resellers lowering both their purchase and resale price for these games over time.
We haven't been replacing those aging COBOL-based apps - that's a massive infrastructure that is well proven and works. When you have systems that churn through billions of daily transactions across millions of accounts, you don't just swap out the systems that do that processing if those systems are working well. It's not glamorous, but it's reliable and it works - and is not prone to new (and expensive) bugs that come with new development.
No, what happened a few years ago was that we started upgrading the hardware and building new, more modern layers to fit on top of those back end systems. But replace them? Replacement is something that is happening very, very slowly. Think of it like erosion - the edges get worn down, we shore them up here and there. And when we have NO other choice, we replace them.
We all ooh and aah over our 1000-TPS Weblogic systems - but forget that the backend COBOL applications are quietly handling all of that load and more.
Fortunately, I'm not involved in the "legacy" systems, so I can be one of those marveling over how fast our Java stack is;)
These statements are my opinion and not representative of the beliefs or actions of my employer. etc, etc
Any password cracker absolutely would. A banned, "common" password will never be the best option. A long password phrase always will be.
I've started doing this recently, it's great - passwords can be both rememebred easily.
However, it's ridiculous the number of sites that still disallow spaces in passwords. There's no excuse for that, unless you're storing passwords as old DOS file names.
User names often have the same ridiculous restriction.
What you're supposed to do is write all your passwords on one sheet of paper, clearly indicating which one is for what login. Then write the word PASSWORDS at the top in big letters and post it on the wall of your cubicle.
(Sadly, I really have seen this.)
I remember that scene too. The password for this month is "pencil".
To whatever site you decide to give it to. User intervention (at least one click in the browser chrome) is required.
(This is obvious, why do people assume that new systems do the dumbest thing possible and not even bother to check?)
Because on slashdot, naming the most obvious flaws in a new idea is what passes for insightful. I'm starting to think the between-the -lines subtext is, "I did not think of this cool idea and am slightly envious, therefore it must be fatally flawed." because surely the people who come up with new ideas are incapable of thinking of these obvious and sometimes crippling flaws on their own.
1) The streaming selection has been awful lately. Like really awful.
I've just found it's harder to discover. It's no better or worse than usual, but finding the interesting things has gotten painful.
2) The site redesign really sucks. You have to hover over a movie to see the rating.
I don't know about this as I never browse through the site, but I do think the PS3 interface redesign really sucks. Makes it impossible to browse quickly, and difficult to browse at all.
3) The recommendations for me are ghastly. Maybe it's because my girlfriend has been watching too many movies.
The lack of separate "instant" queues for different account memebrs is extremely frustrating for this reason alone. Recommendations are useless to me, b/c my wife and I both rate instant content.
4) I've received scratched DVDs and had streaming movies drop repeatedly (despite my 10Mbps connection). I have yet to receive any compensation or even an apology for these service failures.
Do you report them? Every time I report an issue (and it's been infrequent, but it happens) I at least get a form letter apology. And in the case of bad DVD/BD, they ship the replacement same day, before receiving the bad one back from me. Hell - they detect when I stop watching a streaming movie partway through and send me an email encouraging me to report any issues.
5) No video rental on demand? WTF??
It's not their business model. Kind of like getting pissed at McDonalds for not selling Whoppers.
Well.. that's a tough one. Most people when faced with a choice - say to buy a $1 bulb thqtwill last a few months or pay for a $10 bulb that says it will last a few years and save you $15 in that time - will choose the one with more immediate perceived benefit. For further reference look at the average credit card debt per household.
And why are you looking at it as a percent? It's not a percent that gets remitted to the government, it's actual money. Dollar for dollar, the wealthiest 10% pay more than the remainimg 90% of the population.
A good programmer would have stopped to understand the reason for the requirement before trying to implement it. A good manager - especially if non technical- would have left the implementation to the programmer and focused more on managing the programmer''s time and client expectation. Fails on both sides
Are they spending a lot of money for a fancy computer system that will tell them to watch out for crime in the crime ridden part of town?
Yes, they are.
And, if the computer algorithms are any good, it will also show that shoplifting from grocery stores is on the rise in the week prior to Thankgiving and packages burgled from automobiles in retail store parking lots is very high between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Spending money to research the blatantly obvious is an American tradition.
In the same way that beating down any new idea by pointing out the most obvious potential flaws (as if the designer of a new system has no possible way of seeing that flaw himself) is a Slashdot tradition.
This is mdsolar - check his comment history, and pay attention to the link in the sig. He runs a company which installs solar panels, so he's not exactly an impartial figure. I'm surprised you haven't seen him before, since he pops up in pretty much every story about nuclear with similarly misleading comments.
Actually "running a company" is generous - he resells solar rentals in an MLM scheme.
And more than his comments, look at his submission history. He spams slashdot with 2-3 anti-nuke articles a day. Some are bound to get through.
It's a shame that this serves to discredit him -- some of the base facts are interesting, such as the contents of the energy report. It's the persistent anti-nuclear bias in the opinion portions that gets annoying.
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I was once given a speeding ticket for going 89 on a highway in VA, during the middle of the day in the middle of the week - it was in a lesser populated part of the state so the road was virtually empty. 80mph+ in VA is considered reckless, so a court appearance was mandatory.
I showed up, the judge asked the cop what happened. Cop told him. Judge asked what traffic conditions were like (I suspect he knew that was a long, boring stretch of road ;) The cop made a point of saying that the traffic was heavy. Judge asked me if anything the cop said was incorrect... and all I could reply with was " not in a way that I can prove, but my recollection is that there was almost no traffic at all". (Because I damn sure wouldn't have been driving fast if there were heavy traffic.)
Apparently the judge was not an idiot, and let me off with a "take a safe driving course, get no furhter tickets for six months, and this won't show up on your record". Probably because he was well aware of what traffic was like at that time of day. My otherwise clean driving record didn't hurt either.
I was lucky in that case, because the judge had a clue. But I literally had no defense when the cop lied [under oath] about such a trivial thing as traffic - it was my word against his. His lie could have cost me 6 mos-2 years in prison under VA law.
Are you aware that when a cop writes a ticket for a broken tail-light, that is equivalent to when a cop arrests someone for murder?
Actually a citation is legally different from an arrest. Not that this invalidates your point (it doesn't as far as I know, but IANAL... ), but I'm just pointing out that a ticket is not equivalent to an arrest.
Seriously, I think this is good - as long as it's clearly marked on the box/digital 'packaging' so that people can make informed choices, let them. They'll lose customers, they'll also gain revenue - and they (and the market) can decide in the end if the revenues gained from second-hand sales make up for the revenue lost in first-hand sales.
I think it will more than do so - most people are basically inconsiderate in the end. If they get their gameplay out of it, they're really not going to worry about what the second-hand purchaser is getting when they go to gamestop to make their trade-ins. I suspect we'll see the second hand games resellers lowering both their purchase and resale price for these games over time.
We haven't been replacing those aging COBOL-based apps - that's a massive infrastructure that is well proven and works.
When you have systems that churn through billions of daily transactions across millions of accounts, you don't just swap out the systems that do that processing if those systems are working well. It's not glamorous, but it's reliable and it works - and is not prone to new (and expensive) bugs that come with new development.
No, what happened a few years ago was that we started upgrading the hardware and building new, more modern layers to fit on top of those back end systems. But replace them? Replacement is something that is happening very, very slowly. Think of it like erosion - the edges get worn down, we shore them up here and there. And when we have NO other choice, we replace them.
We all ooh and aah over our 1000-TPS Weblogic systems - but forget that the backend COBOL applications are quietly handling all of that load and more.
Fortunately, I'm not involved in the "legacy" systems, so I can be one of those marveling over how fast our Java stack is ;)
These statements are my opinion and not representative of the beliefs or actions of my employer. etc, etc
Any password cracker absolutely would. A banned, "common" password will never be the best option. A long password phrase always will be.
I've started doing this recently, it's great - passwords can be both rememebred easily.
However, it's ridiculous the number of sites that still disallow spaces in passwords. There's no excuse for that, unless you're storing passwords as old DOS file names.
User names often have the same ridiculous restriction.
That's horrible security practice!
What you're supposed to do is write all your passwords on one sheet of paper, clearly indicating which one is for what login. Then write the word PASSWORDS at the top in big letters and post it on the wall of your cubicle.
(Sadly, I really have seen this.)
I remember that scene too. The password for this month is "pencil".
Have you *read* Atlantic? I - for some reason - had a subscription for a while. It's like the Fox News of the left, in written form.
Need anything more be said?
Even if they make a valid point (as this one seems to be) I find myself looking for the ulterior motive...
Just to ensure there are no illusions that should read, "I am part of the product google sells to its advertisers."
From,
A fellow product.
To whatever site you decide to give it to. User intervention (at least one click in the browser chrome) is required.
(This is obvious, why do people assume that new systems do the dumbest thing possible and not even bother to check?)
Because on slashdot, naming the most obvious flaws in a new idea is what passes for insightful. I'm starting to think the between-the
-lines subtext is, "I did not think of this cool idea and am slightly envious, therefore it must be fatally flawed." because surely the people who come up with new ideas are incapable of thinking of these obvious and sometimes crippling flaws on their own.
1) The streaming selection has been awful lately. Like really awful.
I've just found it's harder to discover. It's no better or worse than usual, but finding the interesting things has gotten painful.
2) The site redesign really sucks. You have to hover over a movie to see the rating.
I don't know about this as I never browse through the site, but I do think the PS3 interface redesign really sucks. Makes it impossible to browse quickly, and difficult to browse at all.
3) The recommendations for me are ghastly. Maybe it's because my girlfriend has been watching too many movies.
The lack of separate "instant" queues for different account memebrs is extremely frustrating for this reason alone. Recommendations are useless to me, b/c my wife and I both rate instant content.
4) I've received scratched DVDs and had streaming movies drop repeatedly (despite my 10Mbps connection). I have yet to receive any compensation or even an apology for these service failures.
Do you report them? Every time I report an issue (and it's been infrequent, but it happens) I at least get a form letter apology. And in the case of bad DVD/BD, they ship the replacement same day, before receiving the bad one back from me. Hell - they detect when I stop watching a streaming movie partway through and send me an email encouraging me to report any issues.
5) No video rental on demand? WTF??
It's not their business model. Kind of like getting pissed at McDonalds for not selling Whoppers.
Well.. that's a tough one. Most people when faced with a choice - say to buy a $1 bulb thqtwill last a few months or pay for a $10 bulb that says it will last a few years and save you $15 in that time - will choose the one with more immediate perceived benefit. For further reference look at the average credit card debt per household.
Kind of hard to send you an invite without more information than "Anonymous Coward Rob (s"
Innovation is apparently improved battery life and a 3d display?
Courtesy of TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyberweapon.html
Trying to decide if you're for real or not. Every time I see one of your posts, I have the same mental discussion with myself.
Ad hominem and straw man - and that was the whole substance of your post? Moving on then...
And why are you looking at it as a percent? It's not a percent that gets remitted to the government, it's actual money. Dollar for dollar, the wealthiest 10% pay more than the remainimg 90% of the population.
10 percent of a million is a whole lot more than 20 percent of 50,000.
A good programmer would have stopped to understand the reason for the requirement before trying to implement it. A good manager - especially if non technical- would have left the implementation to the programmer and focused more on managing the programmer''s time and client expectation. Fails on both sides
Are they spending a lot of money for a fancy computer system that will tell them to watch out for crime in the crime ridden part of town?
Yes, they are.
And, if the computer algorithms are any good, it will also show that shoplifting from grocery stores is on the rise in the week prior to Thankgiving and packages burgled from automobiles in retail store parking lots is very high between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Spending money to research the blatantly obvious is an American tradition.
In the same way that beating down any new idea by pointing out the most obvious potential flaws (as if the designer of a new system has no possible way of seeing that flaw himself) is a Slashdot tradition.
It's clear that this guy has no claim to the trademark, and as a lawyer he would likely know this. So where's the rest of the story?
Apparently, solar power is pretty lethal:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html
This is mdsolar - check his comment history, and pay attention to the link in the sig. He runs a company which installs solar panels, so he's not exactly an impartial figure. I'm surprised you haven't seen him before, since he pops up in pretty much every story about nuclear with similarly misleading comments.
Actually "running a company" is generous - he resells solar rentals in an MLM scheme.
And more than his comments, look at his submission history. He spams slashdot with 2-3 anti-nuke articles a day. Some are bound to get through.
It's a shame that this serves to discredit him -- some of the base facts are interesting, such as the contents of the energy report. It's the persistent anti-nuclear bias in the opinion portions that gets annoying.
Chomp is a variant of champ, which makes both forms valid...
English, learn it.
Quite so.