Here's the bill and TFA is right. Also, it's very short, which tells me the senator from PA has no idea why this is a bad idea. DO fill out a web form for your senator. Make this bill die on thefloor of the senate.
Dad gummit. I PAID for NOAA....with my TAXES. I have EVERY right under FOIA to all that data. The nly reason this is being brought up is the Accuweathers, the DTN's and to a lesser extent, the Weather Channels of the world.
What I do not get anymore is how the left seems to say they are progressive....yet whan anyone who was previously for their agenda makes and about face or a neutral stance, they are wrong. How is this being progressive??? At least by supporting civil unions of gays, the republicans tried to work with the groups in question. I do not go to extremes like the Catholic Church does. I heard the new Pope had stopped a nun from ministering to gays while he was a Cardinal. How does one expect to expand the flock and get new church members into the fold if your not willing to let the faithful witness to sinners?
Don't get me wrong. I don't think it is right to bash gays or to discriminate against them, but why must they insist on it being a real marriage instead of a civil union?? I fail to see what a state recognized marriage gets you. The second person in a gay couple likely works too. The majority of this country happens to believe gay marriage is wrong. Are you going to tell the millions of Christians thier belief system is bubkis? I know the minority tries to do this on a daily basis. What they claim is we try to push pur belief system on them, yet in the same turn, they want ME to believe that Gay Marriages are right. Who's pushing whose beliefs on who now??
Um, whatever. Bonjour is nice, but not all it's cracked up to be. When it works, it works. When it doesn't, it's just as easy to plug in IP addresses and other specifics for network printers and what have you.
Microsoft doesn't because they don't have to. There's plenty of things out there that do....even if you want to convert a DOC file to PDF. Load a print driver that converts it's output into a PDF from ANY app, not just Windows.
To be honest, as much as I dispise Microsoft, I would rather DOC files be the standard. I find most PDF's I need over the net to be bloated. Acrobat Reader is ploted as well. Also, what is this SUDDEN need for every frickin windows app to have a background app that makes the main app "load faster" liek Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. Has this EVER been proven yet? It's not like they are preloading the app into memory so it doesn't have to hit the disk to launch the app. The binary is usually different.
Used it and in a word, it sucks. Sure, it runs everywhere, but it's a bitch and a half to use. I am also having trouble finding templates I need for it for doing things like CD/DVD Labels. I can't go out and get a CD/DVD printer and have had almost no problems with Stomper's labels. I know it's not ideal, but I have not had an issue at all so long as I am careful to avoid wrinkles.
If you think your net is a ACL or even just setting correct permissions on a file, you surely jest. Your net is your backup. I would NEVER depend on a ACL over a backup. How many times have you deleted something by accident?? Come on, you know you've done it....
Quite frankly, I would never hand my users the right to change ACL's themselves. I would get tired of users frickin playing tug of war all of the time. You want a ACL change? Ask me. I'll change it if the reason is good enough. Putting ACL's in your users hands who don't understand them will just cause problems.
Your correct. A file Cannot belong to more than one group bt people CAN. This still doesn't proove anything and if you had noticed I had addressed the first sitation later in my post. If the file in question belonged to D, Members of A and B can get the rights they need on D and group C can add them to D.
Also, if you can't trust your developers to not make writes to the files, then who can you trust? Our developers, while they don't have more access than root, they do have a ton more access then most users do. They don't abuse thier access requiring draconian security either. Again, the people who WRITE your system need as much access as they can get because they write the system! That is if your developers are in house. Also, you can have one security model and one organizational structure. They can appear to be, on the surface, different but get everyone the rights they need. You should not set up systems such that your security model mirrors your org chart. If you do something like this, then you will have problems. What if your AR folks cant write to the GL?? That would be a problem! What I am talking about is systems necessary for survival of the company. File shares, while they contain lots of documentation, are rarely what runs your company. You have database systems and other programs that do this. Granted, file shares can hold your production and can be that critical, I have very rarely seen where they were so critical you have got to come up with crazy file access schemes. Again, your system setup should not mirror your org chart or be so set in stone you can't make changes. The only reason you say that there are zero ways to get out of this without ACL's proves to me that you are indeed spoiled by them. There are ways. Sure, it may require weird work arounds, but there are ways. Hell most of the people I work with are unaware of what a file share IS! The amount of times I get documents mailed to me internally far exceeds what I have seen externally. Here's another way to get out of your situation you present without ACL's:
Put the file in a PDF or a password protected PDF or even a web page. The developers can now have read access without getting it at the file level in the system. Think creatively....don't use an excuse tht you gotta have ACL's. If you have them and they work for you, great, but they aren't so necessary that you can't creatively come up with ways to work without them. There's always a way. With open source, there are even more ways.
By your way, you'd throw out most of Mac OS X and other very stable and very good UNIX like systems because they don't have ACL's. Maybe they don't have them because thier users and system admins are not screaming for them because they don't need them?;) Most of these OS's have programs that are 20-30 years old and been continually updated and honed to perfection where as it seems Microsoft has to throw everything out once a decade. You sound like a Windows guy assigned to work a few Mac OS X machines and doesn't like them because they don't work like a Window's machine or a Novell system. Just because you don't understand why some UNIX systems don't have ACL's or don't allow more then 8 character user names (another piece my Novell Admin's care about that I could care less about) or don't support some weird wiled Microsoftian stuff doesn't mean they ain't any good.
Wow. Did not know this. But on the otherhand, would Applescript even be able to execute in this situation?? Sounds like something that is too nitty gritty for Applescript or even a Objective-C program could handle with out something in Openfirmware to help.
Add the manager to only to group A as well as keeping his primary, group C. AIX can do this as can other OS's. While you could satisfy this with ACL's, you could also satisfy this be rethinking who needs access to what. ACL's is just a kludge on top of something that already works. If your security model is so complex you have to do something like what you discribe here, then you don't need ACL's, you need to rethink your model. File security models are like trees. If the core of your model is bad, ACL's can fix it, somewhat, but that doesn't fix the roots. If you have a strong core (or like a tree, a strong root system) you can grown the model when you have to with out adding another layer on top. ACL's make it too easy for you to say OK to a user who comes up with some idiotic reason he needs write access to a file that he otherwise doesn't need to write to and he should not be in it. If he NEEDS this access, it's so easy to just ADD him to A as well as C. The only case is if he did not need to write to the OTHER files in A. In this case, I would make a D and put the file this manager in C needs to write to and make A and C members of D or add anyone who needs to write to this file to D. There are MANY ways of think yourself out of crap like this. Again, if your model is too inflexible to do things like this, then maybe you need to get the users together and hash out a new model that works better for everyone??
THANK YOU! I have been trying to explain this to our Novell folks at work for a while now. When you can belong to multiple groups, then you should be able to belong to more then one group and be able to rwx anything with the proper permissions. The UNIX model is a bit more nitty gritty and fine grained, but once you understand the octal model, it's easy to limit things by user, by group or world. Want it world readable and not executable? No problem!:D
ACL's, like LDAP are wayyyy over rated. I agree LDAP is pretty cool from a management stand point, but once that main LDAP password is breached, then anything that Authenticates to the LDAP table is also breached. We don't LIKE to have you having to remember 30 different passwords, but we do like not having anyone break into our server when you make your password your dogs name or have it written down on a paper under your keyboard.
I disagree. Universal Healthcare sounds like a good idea, but when it comes down to it, it isn't. Here's why....my company's healthcare is looking into changing into a catastrphic insurance plus Healthcare Spending Accounts. The reason is of all of our employees, 50 of them...50, out of 1000 employees are responsible for 90 percent of our claims! These are folks with Cancer, and heart issues, chronic pain and other things that NEVER end. When it comes down to paying for these on a nationwide basis, the people with Cancer and other diseases that continue for many many years, it then becomes cheaper to just keep what cures we have now, and not continue to find new ways to treat cancer. The fact people with Cancer are living longer then they have in the past is a testament to pour private healthcare system. When the healthcare system becomes run by the government, there's no incentive to innovate anymore.
The new plan my company is looking at has a very good chance, if implemented on a much larger scale, to drive costs down. With a HSA and Catastrophic insurance, if you choose to go to the doctor for a COLD, YOU pay the 80 dollars for the WASTE of a appointment instead of 15 bucks. Colds can last anywhere from 3 days to a week on AVERAGE but can last longer. There's no reason to go to a doctor because there's not much that can be done for you now. Save your money by using the HSA to buy your Nyquil/Dayquil or whatever. Also, when you go to this type of system, you will want to find out what doctors are charging for different things. If you then find out your doctor is charging you 80 to look at your throat and listen to your heart YOU can decide that that is too much to pay and you can find a doctor that charges less. Eventually, the expensive doctors will have to find ways to reduce costs. When this is happening on a larger scale, maybe then doctors will try and find more econmoical ways to treat their patients.
Only ones I have seen on the list Microsoft publishes have been programs that need access through Windows Firewall. Sometimes it's easy to fix it....most times it isn't. Windows Firewall woul dbe MUCH better if:
It let you open the ports you need, with plenty of warning message of what may/may not happen.
Do more active scanning of the packets coming in and going out for malicious packets.
Windows Firewall is not enough in someways, but too much and not fine grained enough in control in other ways.
During a large project where I work, we discovered that the product the college bought, at that time, was still using unsecured telnet (in the year 2001 and I ain't kidding!). We had not gone live yet and mentioned that as well as very poor performance on the hardware reccomended by the company. Of course now they have released some patches that mitgate this, but they tell me I have to redeploy about 1,000-1,500 clients in order to implement the fix.....this in the MIDDLE of rollout. We mentioned many times that we did NOT like this and said it ws unsecured many many times. It's not a product that would have been chosen if the decision was left up to us (it wasn't....it was left up to a comittee...). So now we have a audit coming. We KNOW this is going to show up unless we rush implementation of security out so I start investigating what is needed. I come to find out that the client roll out is not needed even though support had told me 2-3 times that I had to do the client upgrade. In the meantime, Iam highly pissed about the whole deal. Even WITH the "security fix", the product STILL requires the use of ftp for a portion of it plus it also requires a DB config that, by it's nature, is unsecured. ALSO, during activities like data refreshes, the encryption must be DISABLED! I would LOVE to get rid of this product but my superiors would never allow it plus it would cost MILLIONS to do anything with any other product. I say millions even though the software would not cost anywhere near that.....millions because of the man hours that would have to be put in to install the new product as well as convert data from the old to new and maybe even hardware upgrades or additional equipment may be needed...this is why I would say millions. We NOTIFIED our superiors that the product was a unsecured piece of crap that could not be secured easily but noone listened. Our users ASKED us to create generic signons for actual users because it would be too time consuming to fill out complete paperwork on temporary users. The product also has many other requirements that require some very bad unsecured setups. When we have blown the whistle loudly and not even the President refused payment of these idiots, how can I be held accountable? It's been reported I don't know how many times but noone listens. Where do you go when your leadership won't listen??? Granted, we will now have the connections secured before the audit, but when will people listen to the people that they pay to do this kind of thing? My only hope is they don't have the money for a GOOD company and they get a mediocre one. My only other hope is that they FINALLY see how much of a piece of crap the software the purchased really is.
* ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
* ATI Radeon 9600 XT, 9800 XT, X800 XT
* nVidia GeForce FX Go 5200
* nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
* nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL, 6800 GT DDL
I wonder if this is not a full list. It just says include and not ARE. I think Core Image is important, but not so much so that you should be concerned that Tiger will dog on your system. At least my just over a year old PowerBook has a supported card. They say high performance cards like the 6800's will get an extra boost. I say the jury is still out. I may only have a nVidia GeForce FX Go 5200 in my Powerbook, I am still ordering my upgrade on Friday. With a educational discount (those in or working for College/School), the upgrade is only 69 bucks.
This was not so much of a due process problem as much as it was a illegal imprisonment by the retail establishment. I do believe if they have evidence they can detain them, but in this case not only was management stupid, but the cashier and the stores detectives also were at fault. I bet they did not even use a special pen on the bill. The officers also should have used some more police work on the bills once they got there before carting the guy off to jail.
Sacagawea coins, while near the same size as a quarter, they are not easily mistaken. First, they are gold in color. Second, the rim of the coin is smooth. They are bigger then a quarter and many vending meachines did need modified. There are several in our area that have their coin slots drilled out to accomodate the larger coin. I, in fact, use them all the time as our vending machine company uses these to dispense change so you no longer have to carry a bunch of quarters when you use a 5 in the snack machine. The snack machine also doubles as a dollar/5 dollar changer. Works out even better because the pop machines take them as well.
I am with ya. I also think that it would be wrong to let people install programs in thier own home directory. Why? Letting plain user accounts install programs even if in your own home directory will still propagate worms. Don't let this happen. All Windows software should:
ONLY be allowed to be installed by a root user typer person. Regular users (users not called Administrator) should not be allowed to install programs unless on a list similar to a UNIX sudo list.
Administrator should not be able to directly login with out being su'd to.
How many lives were lost in Iraq because the units did not bring enough LSA to lube thier grenade launchers? How many lives were lost because a unit made a wrong turn in a hostile country??
Do the astronauts NOT deserve honor and recognition when they die trying to advance thier science? I say yes and depending on the science involved, I can very much see someone wanting to die for the sake of science. How many scientists died testing a device or theory on themselves??
The STS of today is very different from when it first launched. Most of the shuttles have now been converted to the new avionics package with glass cockpits. Also, over the years, there have been many improvements. The airframes may be as old or older than you, but almost every part has been swapped out at some point in the last 20 some years.
Also, the next time you fly, the plane you are stepping on may likely be just as old as the shuttle.
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Here's the bill and TFA is right. Also, it's very short, which tells me the senator from PA has no idea why this is a bad idea. DO fill out a web form for your senator. Make this bill die on thefloor of the senate.
Dad gummit. I PAID for NOAA....with my TAXES. I have EVERY right under FOIA to all that data. The nly reason this is being brought up is the Accuweathers, the DTN's and to a lesser extent, the Weather Channels of the world.
What I do not get anymore is how the left seems to say they are progressive....yet whan anyone who was previously for their agenda makes and about face or a neutral stance, they are wrong. How is this being progressive??? At least by supporting civil unions of gays, the republicans tried to work with the groups in question. I do not go to extremes like the Catholic Church does. I heard the new Pope had stopped a nun from ministering to gays while he was a Cardinal. How does one expect to expand the flock and get new church members into the fold if your not willing to let the faithful witness to sinners?
Don't get me wrong. I don't think it is right to bash gays or to discriminate against them, but why must they insist on it being a real marriage instead of a civil union?? I fail to see what a state recognized marriage gets you. The second person in a gay couple likely works too. The majority of this country happens to believe gay marriage is wrong. Are you going to tell the millions of Christians thier belief system is bubkis? I know the minority tries to do this on a daily basis. What they claim is we try to push pur belief system on them, yet in the same turn, they want ME to believe that Gay Marriages are right. Who's pushing whose beliefs on who now??
Um, whatever. Bonjour is nice, but not all it's cracked up to be. When it works, it works. When it doesn't, it's just as easy to plug in IP addresses and other specifics for network printers and what have you.
Microsoft doesn't because they don't have to. There's plenty of things out there that do....even if you want to convert a DOC file to PDF. Load a print driver that converts it's output into a PDF from ANY app, not just Windows.
To be honest, as much as I dispise Microsoft, I would rather DOC files be the standard. I find most PDF's I need over the net to be bloated. Acrobat Reader is ploted as well. Also, what is this SUDDEN need for every frickin windows app to have a background app that makes the main app "load faster" liek Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. Has this EVER been proven yet? It's not like they are preloading the app into memory so it doesn't have to hit the disk to launch the app. The binary is usually different.
Used it and in a word, it sucks. Sure, it runs everywhere, but it's a bitch and a half to use. I am also having trouble finding templates I need for it for doing things like CD/DVD Labels. I can't go out and get a CD/DVD printer and have had almost no problems with Stomper's labels. I know it's not ideal, but I have not had an issue at all so long as I am careful to avoid wrinkles.
If you think your net is a ACL or even just setting correct permissions on a file, you surely jest. Your net is your backup. I would NEVER depend on a ACL over a backup. How many times have you deleted something by accident?? Come on, you know you've done it....
Quite frankly, I would never hand my users the right to change ACL's themselves. I would get tired of users frickin playing tug of war all of the time. You want a ACL change? Ask me. I'll change it if the reason is good enough. Putting ACL's in your users hands who don't understand them will just cause problems.
Your correct. A file Cannot belong to more than one group bt people CAN. This still doesn't proove anything and if you had noticed I had addressed the first sitation later in my post. If the file in question belonged to D, Members of A and B can get the rights they need on D and group C can add them to D.
;) Most of these OS's have programs that are 20-30 years old and been continually updated and honed to perfection where as it seems Microsoft has to throw everything out once a decade. You sound like a Windows guy assigned to work a few Mac OS X machines and doesn't like them because they don't work like a Window's machine or a Novell system. Just because you don't understand why some UNIX systems don't have ACL's or don't allow more then 8 character user names (another piece my Novell Admin's care about that I could care less about) or don't support some weird wiled Microsoftian stuff doesn't mean they ain't any good.
Also, if you can't trust your developers to not make writes to the files, then who can you trust? Our developers, while they don't have more access than root, they do have a ton more access then most users do. They don't abuse thier access requiring draconian security either. Again, the people who WRITE your system need as much access as they can get because they write the system! That is if your developers are in house. Also, you can have one security model and one organizational structure. They can appear to be, on the surface, different but get everyone the rights they need. You should not set up systems such that your security model mirrors your org chart. If you do something like this, then you will have problems. What if your AR folks cant write to the GL?? That would be a problem! What I am talking about is systems necessary for survival of the company. File shares, while they contain lots of documentation, are rarely what runs your company. You have database systems and other programs that do this. Granted, file shares can hold your production and can be that critical, I have very rarely seen where they were so critical you have got to come up with crazy file access schemes. Again, your system setup should not mirror your org chart or be so set in stone you can't make changes. The only reason you say that there are zero ways to get out of this without ACL's proves to me that you are indeed spoiled by them. There are ways. Sure, it may require weird work arounds, but there are ways. Hell most of the people I work with are unaware of what a file share IS! The amount of times I get documents mailed to me internally far exceeds what I have seen externally. Here's another way to get out of your situation you present without ACL's:
Put the file in a PDF or a password protected PDF or even a web page. The developers can now have read access without getting it at the file level in the system. Think creatively....don't use an excuse tht you gotta have ACL's. If you have them and they work for you, great, but they aren't so necessary that you can't creatively come up with ways to work without them. There's always a way. With open source, there are even more ways.
By your way, you'd throw out most of Mac OS X and other very stable and very good UNIX like systems because they don't have ACL's. Maybe they don't have them because thier users and system admins are not screaming for them because they don't need them?
Wow. Did not know this. But on the otherhand, would Applescript even be able to execute in this situation?? Sounds like something that is too nitty gritty for Applescript or even a Objective-C program could handle with out something in Openfirmware to help.
Add the manager to only to group A as well as keeping his primary, group C. AIX can do this as can other OS's. While you could satisfy this with ACL's, you could also satisfy this be rethinking who needs access to what. ACL's is just a kludge on top of something that already works. If your security model is so complex you have to do something like what you discribe here, then you don't need ACL's, you need to rethink your model. File security models are like trees. If the core of your model is bad, ACL's can fix it, somewhat, but that doesn't fix the roots. If you have a strong core (or like a tree, a strong root system) you can grown the model when you have to with out adding another layer on top. ACL's make it too easy for you to say OK to a user who comes up with some idiotic reason he needs write access to a file that he otherwise doesn't need to write to and he should not be in it. If he NEEDS this access, it's so easy to just ADD him to A as well as C. The only case is if he did not need to write to the OTHER files in A. In this case, I would make a D and put the file this manager in C needs to write to and make A and C members of D or add anyone who needs to write to this file to D. There are MANY ways of think yourself out of crap like this. Again, if your model is too inflexible to do things like this, then maybe you need to get the users together and hash out a new model that works better for everyone??
Um, how do you wake it up when the processor is asleep? Just thought I would ask! ;)
Reminds me of when I was a mainframe operator and a operator scheduled a event to check that the scheduler was up. DUH!
THANK YOU! I have been trying to explain this to our Novell folks at work for a while now. When you can belong to multiple groups, then you should be able to belong to more then one group and be able to rwx anything with the proper permissions. The UNIX model is a bit more nitty gritty and fine grained, but once you understand the octal model, it's easy to limit things by user, by group or world. Want it world readable and not executable? No problem! :D
ACL's, like LDAP are wayyyy over rated. I agree LDAP is pretty cool from a management stand point, but once that main LDAP password is breached, then anything that Authenticates to the LDAP table is also breached. We don't LIKE to have you having to remember 30 different passwords, but we do like not having anyone break into our server when you make your password your dogs name or have it written down on a paper under your keyboard.
I disagree. Universal Healthcare sounds like a good idea, but when it comes down to it, it isn't. Here's why....my company's healthcare is looking into changing into a catastrphic insurance plus Healthcare Spending Accounts. The reason is of all of our employees, 50 of them...50, out of 1000 employees are responsible for 90 percent of our claims! These are folks with Cancer, and heart issues, chronic pain and other things that NEVER end. When it comes down to paying for these on a nationwide basis, the people with Cancer and other diseases that continue for many many years, it then becomes cheaper to just keep what cures we have now, and not continue to find new ways to treat cancer. The fact people with Cancer are living longer then they have in the past is a testament to pour private healthcare system. When the healthcare system becomes run by the government, there's no incentive to innovate anymore.
The new plan my company is looking at has a very good chance, if implemented on a much larger scale, to drive costs down. With a HSA and Catastrophic insurance, if you choose to go to the doctor for a COLD, YOU pay the 80 dollars for the WASTE of a appointment instead of 15 bucks. Colds can last anywhere from 3 days to a week on AVERAGE but can last longer. There's no reason to go to a doctor because there's not much that can be done for you now. Save your money by using the HSA to buy your Nyquil/Dayquil or whatever. Also, when you go to this type of system, you will want to find out what doctors are charging for different things. If you then find out your doctor is charging you 80 to look at your throat and listen to your heart YOU can decide that that is too much to pay and you can find a doctor that charges less. Eventually, the expensive doctors will have to find ways to reduce costs. When this is happening on a larger scale, maybe then doctors will try and find more econmoical ways to treat their patients.
What Slashdot renering problem? I have never had a problem with Slashdot rendering in any version of Firefox.
Only ones I have seen on the list Microsoft publishes have been programs that need access through Windows Firewall. Sometimes it's easy to fix it....most times it isn't. Windows Firewall woul dbe MUCH better if:
It let you open the ports you need, with plenty of warning message of what may/may not happen.
Do more active scanning of the packets coming in and going out for malicious packets.
Windows Firewall is not enough in someways, but too much and not fine grained enough in control in other ways.
How about this....
During a large project where I work, we discovered that the product the college bought, at that time, was still using unsecured telnet (in the year 2001 and I ain't kidding!). We had not gone live yet and mentioned that as well as very poor performance on the hardware reccomended by the company. Of course now they have released some patches that mitgate this, but they tell me I have to redeploy about 1,000-1,500 clients in order to implement the fix.....this in the MIDDLE of rollout. We mentioned many times that we did NOT like this and said it ws unsecured many many times. It's not a product that would have been chosen if the decision was left up to us (it wasn't....it was left up to a comittee...). So now we have a audit coming. We KNOW this is going to show up unless we rush implementation of security out so I start investigating what is needed. I come to find out that the client roll out is not needed even though support had told me 2-3 times that I had to do the client upgrade. In the meantime, Iam highly pissed about the whole deal. Even WITH the "security fix", the product STILL requires the use of ftp for a portion of it plus it also requires a DB config that, by it's nature, is unsecured. ALSO, during activities like data refreshes, the encryption must be DISABLED! I would LOVE to get rid of this product but my superiors would never allow it plus it would cost MILLIONS to do anything with any other product. I say millions even though the software would not cost anywhere near that.....millions because of the man hours that would have to be put in to install the new product as well as convert data from the old to new and maybe even hardware upgrades or additional equipment may be needed...this is why I would say millions. We NOTIFIED our superiors that the product was a unsecured piece of crap that could not be secured easily but noone listened. Our users ASKED us to create generic signons for actual users because it would be too time consuming to fill out complete paperwork on temporary users. The product also has many other requirements that require some very bad unsecured setups. When we have blown the whistle loudly and not even the President refused payment of these idiots, how can I be held accountable? It's been reported I don't know how many times but noone listens. Where do you go when your leadership won't listen??? Granted, we will now have the connections secured before the audit, but when will people listen to the people that they pay to do this kind of thing? My only hope is they don't have the money for a GOOD company and they get a mediocre one. My only other hope is that they FINALLY see how much of a piece of crap the software the purchased really is.
Core Image-capable graphics cards include:
* ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
* ATI Radeon 9600 XT, 9800 XT, X800 XT
* nVidia GeForce FX Go 5200
* nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
* nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL, 6800 GT DDL
I wonder if this is not a full list. It just says include and not ARE. I think Core Image is important, but not so much so that you should be concerned that Tiger will dog on your system. At least my just over a year old PowerBook has a supported card. They say high performance cards like the 6800's will get an extra boost. I say the jury is still out. I may only have a nVidia GeForce FX Go 5200 in my Powerbook, I am still ordering my upgrade on Friday. With a educational discount (those in or working for College/School), the upgrade is only 69 bucks.
Every vending machine in my town accepts them. Time to find some updated vending companies....
This was not so much of a due process problem as much as it was a illegal imprisonment by the retail establishment. I do believe if they have evidence they can detain them, but in this case not only was management stupid, but the cashier and the stores detectives also were at fault. I bet they did not even use a special pen on the bill. The officers also should have used some more police work on the bills once they got there before carting the guy off to jail.
The vending machines at work all use them...both for dispensing change and for legal tender. They are also quite common just about everywhere I go.
Sacagawea coins, while near the same size as a quarter, they are not easily mistaken. First, they are gold in color. Second, the rim of the coin is smooth. They are bigger then a quarter and many vending meachines did need modified. There are several in our area that have their coin slots drilled out to accomodate the larger coin. I, in fact, use them all the time as our vending machine company uses these to dispense change so you no longer have to carry a bunch of quarters when you use a 5 in the snack machine. The snack machine also doubles as a dollar/5 dollar changer. Works out even better because the pop machines take them as well.
I am with ya. I also think that it would be wrong to let people install programs in thier own home directory. Why? Letting plain user accounts install programs even if in your own home directory will still propagate worms. Don't let this happen. All Windows software should:
ONLY be allowed to be installed by a root user typer person. Regular users (users not called Administrator) should not be allowed to install programs unless on a list similar to a UNIX sudo list.
Administrator should not be able to directly login with out being su'd to.
How many lives were lost in Iraq because the units did not bring enough LSA to lube thier grenade launchers? How many lives were lost because a unit made a wrong turn in a hostile country??
Do the astronauts NOT deserve honor and recognition when they die trying to advance thier science? I say yes and depending on the science involved, I can very much see someone wanting to die for the sake of science. How many scientists died testing a device or theory on themselves??
The STS of today is very different from when it first launched. Most of the shuttles have now been converted to the new avionics package with glass cockpits. Also, over the years, there have been many improvements. The airframes may be as old or older than you, but almost every part has been swapped out at some point in the last 20 some years.
Also, the next time you fly, the plane you are stepping on may likely be just as old as the shuttle.