It's a nice feature. But let's not pretend that it's a Magic Mac Thing. I'd wager that 90% of home routers auto-sense, and I'd also wager that at least 75% of NICs do too. It's not a Mac thing, it's in the firmware of the NIC.
Could be worse, could be Girls Gone Wild a bunch of semi-consenting drunken teenagers showing their breasts. "Here's my boobs!" Daddy is proud, I am sure.
AIG's CEO, even as we we were bailing them out to the tune of $85B, went to the compensation committee, and asked for "performance bonuses" for several key execs, including $5M for himself, and was given it. Not exactly sure what the performance was, other than "successfully persuading the government to dig us out of the clusterfuck we got into"...
You realize that the FDIC currently has $52B deposited with it... enough to cover less than two per cent of the amount covered under FDIC insurance for all deposits. When IndyMac bank went bankrupt, they chewed through $9B of that alone.
In regards to the above issue, too, the FDIC does not insure against theft or fraud at the institutional level, nor securities and other things.
Nothing to do with 'bogus transactions'. If the goods are not working as intended, and you're getting the slightest bit of grief, even down to unreasonable "6-8 weeks for replacement", you just cancel the transaction and buy it somewhere else.
The problem with this is that "someone has to come last", and you have to consider the impact on the person who comes last, especially if they're trying their best, and especially if there are other people ahead of them who aren't trying. What we want is people to be doing their best, and though sometimes their best "may not be good enough", seems to me there are better ways of dealing with it. I know that the VCE certificate in Australia used to rank students across the entire state on a percentile basis, in.5 increments, except for a ">95" group, and a "10" group, and I'd suspect that that was at least part of the motivation.
Google has a privacy policy and the lawyers tell us it meets the requirements. So if they do not hold up their end we have done our due diligence. That is good enough.
Nice. "Not our problem" (that we foisted your private data off and it got lost as the result of a problem at the remote end.
"imamac" - you couldn't possibly be biased... what makes you think the market by way of consumer rights and advocacy group, HASNT decided, and asked its legislators to do something, as they are entitled to?
Inflation was in double digits. Ditto with loans and mortgage rates.
And yet "currently" mortgage rates are around 5-6%. But you might be required to get a subprime mortgage at a variable rate. Or you might be required to take out LMI. Or you might be required to take out a secondary loan for the downpayment. Or a secondary mortgage. You might not pay 16% mortgage rates (and they're no good), but given that current foreclosure rates on subprime, alt-a mortgages is topping 20%, banks are going bankrupt, I'm not entirely sure which is the lesser evil.
I suppose the Democratic majority congress had no hand in American politics these past several years then?
Well, yes, they have. If for one, you call 18 months "several years" (nice spin, pal), and if for two you ignore at least twelve instances of Republican filibustering, and if for three you ignore the impact of a President who has used more presidential vetos than every other President in US history COMBINED, not to mention signing statement.
Then I guess we could say that they've played a hand or two.
Yes, I'm aware that they've also handled some of the things they have done horribly, but still. Nonetheless, nice try, Dittohead.
"Regulation SHO also created the "Threshold Security List," which reported any stock where more than 0.5% of a company's total outstanding shares failed delivery for five consecutive days."
OSTK has been on the REG SHO list for not five consecutive days, but THREE YEARS. There are people holding, and trading stock of his company THAT DOES NOT EXIST, for YEARS. I think he's probably got fair grounds to claim that his stock price has been hit by short selling.
Hmmm, lots of weasel words there. "Generally concluded", "fairly unambiguous" - come on, the only people on WP who were even desperately clinging onto the notion that GW might not be Mantanmoreland were those who'd most vehemently fought for him and had the most to lose credibility and reputation wise if it were shown to be true, including some for whom evidence had came out showing that they in all probability knew it to be the case a long time ago.
Placing viruses on people's computers? That's a really serious accusation to make George, claiming criminal activity by people - you want to make really sure you know what you're talking about. Embedding a web bug in an email or a web site is not a virus, no matter how Slim spinned it, and tried to distort the issue to be about that, rather than how, within 5 minutes of receiving the email, Gary Weiss had also received the email.
Claiming people were "felony stalked" is also another serious accusation to make, George, especially on hearsay. But hey, anything to make your side of the argument.
"Illegal access to computers"? Seriously, George, you've accused Judd and Patrick of MULTIPLE FELONY CRIMES in this rant of yours, with either no evidence, or directly refuting evidence. Why so vehement, George?
Come on, Phil, you've painted yourself as "impartial" and neutral through this. Weren't you one of the last people (were you ever actually convinced?) to finally realize that Mantan was socking? Kinda hard to maintain neutrality in that situation. Both sides were socking, but you've not said thing one about GW's doing of this, but plenty about Judd's.
There was a lot more to it than that. Before Byrne went on his "rampage", he went up the line of Wikipedia admins, finding one "SlimVirgin", who promised to investigate. However, funnily, rather than "investigate", she (and this was known by the presence of a web bug in the email) immediately forwarded an email containing evidence that Gary Weiss was mantanmoreland (considering mantan had vehemently denied any COI, etc, etc, etc) straight to Gary Weiss.
She later claimed that she had accidentally forwarded it to him, rather than to another administrator, although she declined to name which, and no administrator ever came forward.
She then modified the story to say she had been stalked and harassed, and that the email contained 'malware and spyware', which lead people to question then why forward it to someone else?
From there, he realized that working within the WP chain was unlikely to bear fruition.
Note that Gary Weiss' editing on the part of the associated articles was to push the POV that no such thing as naked short selling exists, an interesting viewpoint to take considering everything going down now. And note that it wasn't just ignorance, not only was Gary Weiss a financial journalist with Forbes, he also had access to DTCC, and edits were shown being made by him from DTCC IP addresses - note that DTCC is the clearinghouse that tracks all the FTD (Fail To Deliver) that arise from naked shorting.
Apple is offering a phone that runs on AT&T's network. That's the product. No one is being forced to buy it, anymore than anyone is forced to buy an Instinct from Sprint.
And when they say it's all good because you're only locked to AT&T for 2 years, but in reality, they've signed a 5 year exclusive agreement with AT&T? One of these things is not like the other...
Co-worker: I've not slept for a whole week trying to write this report. I thought I'd never make it, but last night I caught a lucky break, and got a visit from some Monkey Gods who wrote the entire thing for me.
Dilbert: Wow. Lucky break.
Co-worker: Now all I need is someone who can translate his simple yet beautiful language...
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It's a nice feature. But let's not pretend that it's a Magic Mac Thing. I'd wager that 90% of home routers auto-sense, and I'd also wager that at least 75% of NICs do too. It's not a Mac thing, it's in the firmware of the NIC.
I thought with the premise that MD5 and friends are based off, that hash collision possibility is not related to size of source.
Could be worse, could be Girls Gone Wild a bunch of semi-consenting drunken teenagers showing their breasts. "Here's my boobs!" Daddy is proud, I am sure.
And no offense, but if he expects it to gain traction, perhaps 'sux0r' wasn't the best name...
Kwan/Quan - tas.
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Start > "cmd" -> Right click, "Run as Administrator".
Start > "explorer" -> Right click, "Run as Administrator".
Nice, fanboy. "Pay" != "Salary". How's that private jet that they gave Steve working out? I'm sure that wasn't free.
AIG's CEO, even as we we were bailing them out to the tune of $85B, went to the compensation committee, and asked for "performance bonuses" for several key execs, including $5M for himself, and was given it. Not exactly sure what the performance was, other than "successfully persuading the government to dig us out of the clusterfuck we got into"...
In regards to the above issue, too, the FDIC does not insure against theft or fraud at the institutional level, nor securities and other things.
Nothing to do with 'bogus transactions'. If the goods are not working as intended, and you're getting the slightest bit of grief, even down to unreasonable "6-8 weeks for replacement", you just cancel the transaction and buy it somewhere else.
The problem with this is that "someone has to come last", and you have to consider the impact on the person who comes last, especially if they're trying their best, and especially if there are other people ahead of them who aren't trying. What we want is people to be doing their best, and though sometimes their best "may not be good enough", seems to me there are better ways of dealing with it. I know that the VCE certificate in Australia used to rank students across the entire state on a percentile basis, in .5 increments, except for a ">95" group, and a "10" group, and I'd suspect that that was at least part of the motivation.
Nice. "Not our problem" (that we foisted your private data off and it got lost as the result of a problem at the remote end.
Good approach to protecting PII.
You should be aware that Alltel is now entirely owned by Verizon.
"imamac" - you couldn't possibly be biased... what makes you think the market by way of consumer rights and advocacy group, HASNT decided, and asked its legislators to do something, as they are entitled to?
How to win friends and influence people, the Slashdot way...
And yet "currently" mortgage rates are around 5-6%. But you might be required to get a subprime mortgage at a variable rate. Or you might be required to take out LMI. Or you might be required to take out a secondary loan for the downpayment. Or a secondary mortgage. You might not pay 16% mortgage rates (and they're no good), but given that current foreclosure rates on subprime, alt-a mortgages is topping 20%, banks are going bankrupt, I'm not entirely sure which is the lesser evil.
I think you'll find the Magna Carta was written on paper, not nailed. :)
Well, yes, they have. If for one, you call 18 months "several years" (nice spin, pal), and if for two you ignore at least twelve instances of Republican filibustering, and if for three you ignore the impact of a President who has used more presidential vetos than every other President in US history COMBINED, not to mention signing statement.
Then I guess we could say that they've played a hand or two.
Yes, I'm aware that they've also handled some of the things they have done horribly, but still. Nonetheless, nice try, Dittohead.
OSTK has been on the REG SHO list for not five consecutive days, but THREE YEARS. There are people holding, and trading stock of his company THAT DOES NOT EXIST, for YEARS. I think he's probably got fair grounds to claim that his stock price has been hit by short selling.
Placing viruses on people's computers? That's a really serious accusation to make George, claiming criminal activity by people - you want to make really sure you know what you're talking about. Embedding a web bug in an email or a web site is not a virus, no matter how Slim spinned it, and tried to distort the issue to be about that, rather than how, within 5 minutes of receiving the email, Gary Weiss had also received the email.
Claiming people were "felony stalked" is also another serious accusation to make, George, especially on hearsay. But hey, anything to make your side of the argument.
"Illegal access to computers"? Seriously, George, you've accused Judd and Patrick of MULTIPLE FELONY CRIMES in this rant of yours, with either no evidence, or directly refuting evidence. Why so vehement, George?
Come on, Phil, you've painted yourself as "impartial" and neutral through this. Weren't you one of the last people (were you ever actually convinced?) to finally realize that Mantan was socking? Kinda hard to maintain neutrality in that situation. Both sides were socking, but you've not said thing one about GW's doing of this, but plenty about Judd's.
She later claimed that she had accidentally forwarded it to him, rather than to another administrator, although she declined to name which, and no administrator ever came forward.
She then modified the story to say she had been stalked and harassed, and that the email contained 'malware and spyware', which lead people to question then why forward it to someone else?
From there, he realized that working within the WP chain was unlikely to bear fruition.
Note that Gary Weiss' editing on the part of the associated articles was to push the POV that no such thing as naked short selling exists, an interesting viewpoint to take considering everything going down now. And note that it wasn't just ignorance, not only was Gary Weiss a financial journalist with Forbes, he also had access to DTCC, and edits were shown being made by him from DTCC IP addresses - note that DTCC is the clearinghouse that tracks all the FTD (Fail To Deliver) that arise from naked shorting.
And when they say it's all good because you're only locked to AT&T for 2 years, but in reality, they've signed a 5 year exclusive agreement with AT&T? One of these things is not like the other ...
Co-worker: I've not slept for a whole week trying to write this report. I thought I'd never make it, but last night I caught a lucky break, and got a visit from some Monkey Gods who wrote the entire thing for me.
Dilbert: Wow. Lucky break.
Co-worker: Now all I need is someone who can translate his simple yet beautiful language...