So in other words, he's bitching because his ill gotten gains were stolen by another fraudster. I think there's a word for that, in fact I think there's a whole song devoted to that sort of thing. Hmm, kind of Ironic, don't you think?
Well, Flash isn't accessible and can't be made accessible. Anything that you convey using Flash also has to be conveyed in another fashion. Flash isn't available on all platforms that one might want to use, meaning that you're leaving some folks out. The performance is horrendous and the plug ins are frequently out of date and buggy. It's also a regular security nightmare and probably always will be as Adobe doesn't seem to be doing any better than Macromedia was previously.
Time for it to die and be replaced by something that isn't complete crap.
I'm going to have to call BS. QA doesn't always take a predictable amount of time to complete. Sometimes it takes longer and sometimes it takes less time. Delaying security patches to home users because corporate users ask for it is completely unacceptable.
This is the type of security by obscurity that's bad. Security by obscurity as part of a balanced approach isn't problematic, but failing to release patches because of this sort of silliness is just irresponsible. You hold off on releasing a patch because people might reverse engineer it rather than having to use the already known exploit. The companies releasing these patches are rarely the first party to discover them, typically the find out about them after somebody exploits them.
Yes, but you're also giving people that are less willing to risk getting caught up in an audit the chance to come clean in the future. A lot of that income didn't get reported because nobody was looking for it and there wasn't an inherent paper trail. I'm not sure about over there, but over here it can be really confusing figuring out how to pay your taxes if you're a part time tutor working for cash. Even if you aren't deliberately trying to defraud the government it gets really confusing figuring out how much you should pay, to whom at what time in the year.
Not that I necessarily advocate it, but it's not realistic to pay an accountant if you're just doing a bit of tutoring for pocket money. The hassle of paying up is pretty unreasonable. Might be different in places with an income tax, but around here it's sales tax, property tax and a few business taxes.
It's an estimate based upon how much money the suspect is being underreported or unreported and the tax which would be applied if it were properly reported. It's something that most if not all government's do, it's a way of keeping an eye on whether or not they need more enforcement or audits.
It's difficult to really know since no government ever gets 100% of what they should and the tax is by definition not collected.
MAFIAA accounting OTOH is overtly fraudulent and is made solely so that they can cry poor whenever they need more help enforcing their rights. The HMRC in this case is at least in theory trying to be a bit more even handed about it. I know in the US there are similar figures estimating how much more money the government is theoretically entitled to but can't for whatever reason collect.
I just got a small laptop with one of the AMD Fusian Llano chips and I was pleasantly surprised by how well it performs. I wasn't expecting to be able to do any gaming, but I can game as long as I stick to games from several years back. Which is not bad considering it only has a dual core 1.6ghz processor and an AMD Radeon HD 6310.
The battery life and performance aren't as good as some of the Intel based ones, but it was a couple hundred dollars cheaper.
Yes, but I think the relevant question is: how precisely is it that they kill this one. They have a history of devising cool technology and then managing to fuck it up.
Citation. They aren't wasting any because of lack of demand. Any overage we have gets sold out of state to keep our rates lower. WA state has been idling capacity recently, but it's not for lack of demand, it's because the grid can't handle all the excess power from the dams and it's not cost effective to maintain that amount of capacity for such rare overages.
It's not generally the offense that's the problem, it's the investigative techniques involved. Nobody had an issue with the NSA investigating terrorism, but most of us have a problem when they claim to need warrantless wiretaps and the CIA need for black sites to do interrogations.
3 packs of cigarettes is a tad bad for you. If you only smoke 3 packs during your entire life the adverse effects are going to be minimal to the point of being hard to identify.
You get what you test. You don't get what you don't test. It's a side effect of our deciding that we're way behind the rest of the world in general without actually bothering to do any investigation.
The other aspect of it is that as more stuff gets crammed into the curriculum, something is going to be left out and that thing is always one of the items that's not on the tests.
In elementary school I had a friend from South Korea, he came here for fourth grade, and he had already had some schooling in Basic. Granted that's a God awful language to start with, but he wasn't that smart, comparatively speaking, but it's something that was available to him in elementary school.
What's going to be nasty is that I bet there's people out there with Citi accounts that don't know they've got one. When the FDIC illegally seized WAMU for JP Morgen, Citi ended up with my CC. I canceled it, but they sent me another card anyways, and I'd be surprised if a few people didn't end up with a CC account that they don't know about.
When the FDIC illegal seized WAMU, they ended up with my information. I cancelled my card immediately, but I have a feeling that they've probably retained my information, given that they weren't willing to take no for an answer.
There was some question about that, but with the last couple attacks, it's getting really hard to buy that this is about anything other than lulz. I suppose there could be something that's not obvious to me here, but I can't fathom what it would be that would make this all make sense in that light. Just strikes me as pretty implausible at this point that it's not just black hat stuff.
I haven't yet finished the game, but 80% sounds about right if you ignore the years of development. And really the reviewers should be ignoring that. It's got some issues to it, but the ones I've seen are pretty insignificant and ought to be relatively easily fixed via patches.
I've noticed a lot of the reviews out there being approximately 1/10 rview by column and 9/10 editorial, which made me suspicious of the accuracy in general if the reviewer can't be arsed to separate opinion from fact and disclose biases.
When I started playing through it was more or less everything I could have hoped for, and I would be surprised if it doesn't end up influencing developers in the future to incorporate more interactivity. That puzzle near the beginning with the toy truck was just inspired.
They did themselves a significant disservice by pulling this one off. With the previous exploits they did there was at least some plausible political motive. But this is pretty much just straight up black hat stuff with no redeeming value to it at all.
Indeed, I think that's something that people tend to forget about. Companies don't have to stand idly by while employees unionize. If they're that concerned they can always make sure that the employees are being paid more then their union counter parts. People don't typically want to unionize if they feel they're getting a good deal without the union. I mean, who would want to pay dues if they didn't have to?
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So in other words, he's bitching because his ill gotten gains were stolen by another fraudster. I think there's a word for that, in fact I think there's a whole song devoted to that sort of thing. Hmm, kind of Ironic, don't you think?
Well, Flash isn't accessible and can't be made accessible. Anything that you convey using Flash also has to be conveyed in another fashion. Flash isn't available on all platforms that one might want to use, meaning that you're leaving some folks out. The performance is horrendous and the plug ins are frequently out of date and buggy. It's also a regular security nightmare and probably always will be as Adobe doesn't seem to be doing any better than Macromedia was previously.
Time for it to die and be replaced by something that isn't complete crap.
The 64bit versions always use more memory, which is why you're often better off not using a 64bit version unless you've got a reason to do so.
I'm going to have to call BS. QA doesn't always take a predictable amount of time to complete. Sometimes it takes longer and sometimes it takes less time. Delaying security patches to home users because corporate users ask for it is completely unacceptable.
This is the type of security by obscurity that's bad. Security by obscurity as part of a balanced approach isn't problematic, but failing to release patches because of this sort of silliness is just irresponsible. You hold off on releasing a patch because people might reverse engineer it rather than having to use the already known exploit. The companies releasing these patches are rarely the first party to discover them, typically the find out about them after somebody exploits them.
It's a force of habit from when Windows used to come with that auto Reboot feature. You know the one that was that pretty blue color.
You don't pay any of those other things because it'll decrease the surplus population.
Yes, but you're also giving people that are less willing to risk getting caught up in an audit the chance to come clean in the future. A lot of that income didn't get reported because nobody was looking for it and there wasn't an inherent paper trail. I'm not sure about over there, but over here it can be really confusing figuring out how to pay your taxes if you're a part time tutor working for cash. Even if you aren't deliberately trying to defraud the government it gets really confusing figuring out how much you should pay, to whom at what time in the year.
Not that I necessarily advocate it, but it's not realistic to pay an accountant if you're just doing a bit of tutoring for pocket money. The hassle of paying up is pretty unreasonable. Might be different in places with an income tax, but around here it's sales tax, property tax and a few business taxes.
It's an estimate based upon how much money the suspect is being underreported or unreported and the tax which would be applied if it were properly reported. It's something that most if not all government's do, it's a way of keeping an eye on whether or not they need more enforcement or audits.
It's difficult to really know since no government ever gets 100% of what they should and the tax is by definition not collected.
MAFIAA accounting OTOH is overtly fraudulent and is made solely so that they can cry poor whenever they need more help enforcing their rights. The HMRC in this case is at least in theory trying to be a bit more even handed about it. I know in the US there are similar figures estimating how much more money the government is theoretically entitled to but can't for whatever reason collect.
I just got a small laptop with one of the AMD Fusian Llano chips and I was pleasantly surprised by how well it performs. I wasn't expecting to be able to do any gaming, but I can game as long as I stick to games from several years back. Which is not bad considering it only has a dual core 1.6ghz processor and an AMD Radeon HD 6310.
The battery life and performance aren't as good as some of the Intel based ones, but it was a couple hundred dollars cheaper.
Yes, but I think the relevant question is: how precisely is it that they kill this one. They have a history of devising cool technology and then managing to fuck it up.
Well, that's because PCMCIA.
I know that 5,000 comments isn't much to you, the one that has posted probably a million comments, but for the rest of us it's quite a bit.
Citation. They aren't wasting any because of lack of demand. Any overage we have gets sold out of state to keep our rates lower. WA state has been idling capacity recently, but it's not for lack of demand, it's because the grid can't handle all the excess power from the dams and it's not cost effective to maintain that amount of capacity for such rare overages.
It's not generally the offense that's the problem, it's the investigative techniques involved. Nobody had an issue with the NSA investigating terrorism, but most of us have a problem when they claim to need warrantless wiretaps and the CIA need for black sites to do interrogations.
3 packs of cigarettes is a tad bad for you. If you only smoke 3 packs during your entire life the adverse effects are going to be minimal to the point of being hard to identify.
You get what you test. You don't get what you don't test. It's a side effect of our deciding that we're way behind the rest of the world in general without actually bothering to do any investigation.
The other aspect of it is that as more stuff gets crammed into the curriculum, something is going to be left out and that thing is always one of the items that's not on the tests.
In elementary school I had a friend from South Korea, he came here for fourth grade, and he had already had some schooling in Basic. Granted that's a God awful language to start with, but he wasn't that smart, comparatively speaking, but it's something that was available to him in elementary school.
What's going to be nasty is that I bet there's people out there with Citi accounts that don't know they've got one. When the FDIC illegally seized WAMU for JP Morgen, Citi ended up with my CC. I canceled it, but they sent me another card anyways, and I'd be surprised if a few people didn't end up with a CC account that they don't know about.
When the FDIC illegal seized WAMU, they ended up with my information. I cancelled my card immediately, but I have a feeling that they've probably retained my information, given that they weren't willing to take no for an answer.
You mean Google. Firefox just wants to do it because Google is doing it.
There was some question about that, but with the last couple attacks, it's getting really hard to buy that this is about anything other than lulz. I suppose there could be something that's not obvious to me here, but I can't fathom what it would be that would make this all make sense in that light. Just strikes me as pretty implausible at this point that it's not just black hat stuff.
I haven't yet finished the game, but 80% sounds about right if you ignore the years of development. And really the reviewers should be ignoring that. It's got some issues to it, but the ones I've seen are pretty insignificant and ought to be relatively easily fixed via patches.
I've noticed a lot of the reviews out there being approximately 1/10 rview by column and 9/10 editorial, which made me suspicious of the accuracy in general if the reviewer can't be arsed to separate opinion from fact and disclose biases.
When I started playing through it was more or less everything I could have hoped for, and I would be surprised if it doesn't end up influencing developers in the future to incorporate more interactivity. That puzzle near the beginning with the toy truck was just inspired.
They did themselves a significant disservice by pulling this one off. With the previous exploits they did there was at least some plausible political motive. But this is pretty much just straight up black hat stuff with no redeeming value to it at all.
Indeed, I think that's something that people tend to forget about. Companies don't have to stand idly by while employees unionize. If they're that concerned they can always make sure that the employees are being paid more then their union counter parts. People don't typically want to unionize if they feel they're getting a good deal without the union. I mean, who would want to pay dues if they didn't have to?