in France. They come, study, get a diploma... And go away:)
For all that time, free university, free medical expenses...
F*ck socialism, it killed my country.
=== Are you sure it killed your country? I would say that it opened access to your countries products because the students who returned home, had a preference for French goods and services. And of the ones who did not return, I am sure they were as many minorities, business startup people. They created businesses and developed products and services that were innovative and cost effective.
If you only look at one aspect, the competition in Universities, then you are partially right.
This Microsoft discussion has come home to roost. Manufacturers use the EOQ logic to determine production runs and inventory. And customers know that they can get more than adequate W7 or Linux boxes for less than the cost of a W8 UEFI system.
Since MS W8 sales are so slow, MS is going to learn to leave more frugally. They will watch the bonuses and salary increases dry up and restructuring occur.
Sadly, some very good developers are going to be on the market.
Yeah, this is true. For example Target pays $1 million each day to credit card companies due to fees. That's why they always try and get you to sign up for a store card, saving 5% on each of your transaction actually still saves them money overall. I doubt they'll switch to implementing fees now that they have the opportunity, they like to set their company policy nationally so as long as some major states have it illegal, they won't implement.
This law is more about the Mom & Pop corner stores that have always had to have a $10 minimum for credit card fees, now it might be more convenient for them to allow credit cards for a bottle of soda, provided they can up the charge and not lose money on the sale. It'll also encourage people to switch back to good old cash that way.
=== In the end, nothing is going to happen, except for retailers with big ticket items. The prices will not drop, but you will be asked for the fee amount. The fees are added to the purchase price, so state taxes will be collected against the total amount.
Next. CC companies may ask you to insure your CC against fraud. Again, the risk is yours to take. Enjoy...
I am running Russian Fedora18 spin (Via RPMFUSION -USER) and loving it. It is Fedora with all codecs, and dvd player, svn, git and it is available in English.
Russian Programmers are no different than American Programmers, and for every Russian software that is on the distribution, you get source. They actually use the Rpmfusion sources for the codecs.
Only one program that I thought should be essential, That was VLC.
how many of you would think it twice before willingly installing software from a chinese software company -- given all the news we hear recently about chinese companies being denied access to important western markets due to security reasons and all.
I concur that. I switched to Debian after the fiasco of RH7 and never looked back.
You do know that RH 7 came out in 2000 and was discontinued after RH 9 in 2003 for Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 2. The latest release of RHEL is version 6 which will be supported for 13 years. Go to the Redhat site, they don't hide anything if you don't believe me.
Personally I don't really like the Debian distributions and prefer the Fedora/Redhat ones since I have never had many problems with Fedora Core 7 and have updated regularly all the way to Fedora 18 which IMHO is actually the best distribution to date although I would say that the new installer is a little bit cosmetically challenged, however it does what it is supposed to do and it does it well. I do think Alan Cox's statement saying that the new installer is unusable is totally wrong, although I do agree it is different.
For me to go from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 I always do a fresh install of the OS which in this case took me about 45 minutes, then it took me an additional 30 minutes to install all software i use and potentially use. Then it took me about an hour to do the updates on over 1700 packages and during that time I actually did other things such as watching a video and surfing the web on the machine I was updating.
=== I concur with you regarding Fedora. I started with Core, and never stopped installing new Fedora versions every six months. I keep 1 previous version on my system as a comparison of how much some programs have changed.
With Unity, and Gnome, I was getting carpal tunnel problems with my wrist and with the muscle controlling my left mousebutton forefinger. Too many click click clicks. Worse, the hot corner was too sensitive, and I got aggravated with windows centralizing, jumping to Maximum, jumping to reduced size,etc. etc.
I installed Cinnamon with Fedora 18, and I am delighted. I have a favourites panel where my frequent programs are always one click to initiate. I have a favourites column where a second click can launch a favourite, and with sliding along (similar layout to kde), I can start any other program. It is a very very practical improvement of Gnome2. Try it, you will like it. Fedora 18 anaconda was rushed to release, because of design delays due to UEFI, arm, and more. The new design will be a winner.
I have written to the developers to suggest improvements and I posted requests with bugzilla. The applications are rock solid. I have no complaints here.
If you are a Fedora biggot (like me), visit rpmfusion.org, where you can learn about non-free unlicensed code. Under Users in the main page is a link to a Russian Fedora spin. I have standardized on that. The spin is in English, has all the codecs, for audio, video, and many developer facilities (Subversion, etc.). This Fedora Spin is what one does to Fedora when a new release is published.
Authors, Nancy Potevin (Nancy Jug of wine) and Patrick Du Jardiin (Patrick of the Garden) are the names and translated names (from French). Are we supposed to believe what they wrote. Are the pseudonoms to protect the professors from Monsanto?
We have a government Casino in Montreal. My wife likes to play the machines. While she does, I respond to Slashdot. My address is the wifi of the casino.
I suppose I could also do the responses from the library, or a coffee shop. If I do all three, it would only be via video cameras and some guessing that it was me doing the horrendous thing of responding to slashdot comments.
why not focus on the question of what we are going to do with all unskilled labor that is currently being replaced?
"Let them eat cake" as long as possible, followed, of course, by revolution. In this case, the revolution will, in fact, be televised. Probably won't fix anything, but not avoidable either.
=== Regarding workers who are laid off, rather than unskilled, one solution is to reduce the workweek. From 7 to 4 days. (We work seven, because of the deadline pressure, and the fact that we are salaried, as opposed to hourly.)
We should leave programming for jobs as electrician, plumber, carpenter, -- a tradesman. Tradesmen do not make super high salaries, but they rarely ever loose their jobs, rarely have strikes, and are licensed, so that you must call a certified electrician, instead of your brother-in-law. Good programmer 80k-100k age 30 to age 45. Independent consultant thereafter with 60-80k if lucky.
Electrician 60-65k plus OTime, age 21 through 65 non stop, and with some cash under the table for holiday vacations
Igor's review of Fedora 18 was done with a mindset to finding all the flaws, and blowing up the imporatance. Fedora 18 anaconda is version 0.9, a brand new design, a design to cover hardware that Igor does not own. Hardware with UEFI, arm, and more.
I will be as polite as I can, but Igor's review is as useful as a tit on a bull. If he said, My sytem is a 4gig computer, with dual core operating system and xxx gigs of diskspace, and I analyzed both the 32 and 64bit systems using both the DVD and the Live DVD versions, then, for me he has credabilty.
FYI, Fedora has spins, which means versions tailored for specific users.
I use a Russian Spin ( www.rpmfusion.org, paragraph Users, and select the Russian Spin). This spin has all the extra installed software that Igor wrote about, and more. It is a delight. This spin contains all the codecs, dvd player stuff, svn, and much more goodies. I took the gnome version, did the DVD installation for both 32 and 64bit systems where minimum memory available was 3.5gigs, and adequate disk space. In one evaluation I used btfrs, in another Standard. (anaconda disk usage options).
Once installed and following two updates using yum, I redid creating the grub.cfg file. That version of Fedora 18 32bit resides alongside Fedora 17, Ubuntu, Mint14 KDE and Debian KDE/Gnome.
I am not particularly thrilled with Gnome 3.x that comes with Fedora 18, so I installed and I am using Cinnamon. Cinnamon is a delight. As little as one mouse click to start an application or switch windows. With Gnome I used to suffer with Carpal Tunnel problems for the muscle controlling my forefinger always clicking the left mouse button.
Once installed, The Russian version of Fedora 18 is great. If you have an ATI card, there are built-in drivers.
I worked in Banking software for 20 years. We were not super intelligent, but we did standardize on using julian calendar routines. We did not use Unixtime. Unix time is definitely not a problem. I say that because we use the entire 32bit number. Want another 35 years to go with it. Assign a one byte field in the kernel. If the byte is zero, the date represented by the 32bit number precedes 2038. If it has a binary one, it is post 2038. Julian date or one based on the number of days since 1600. will make business life a date worry free activity.
Some believer in magic is telling us all to educate ourselves.Listen. The burden is on you. It's your religion. You want to improve your religion's image? Then convince other members of the Mohammed cult not to blow people up or cut off infidels heads or to stone people to death.
You are confusing a theological problem with a sociological one. The issue that concerns you as a non muslim is "Can or should I tar all Muslims with the same brush?" No you shouldn't, and your actions will actually worsen relations between different groups
FYI I am not a crypto theist of any description, but I can tell when someone is simply being prejudiced
Maybe you need an example closer to your own home: Are all Christians the same as Westboro Baptist? Is a Quaker or a Unitarian the same as a Fundamentalist Evangelical who uses biblical quotations to argue against homosexuality and "miscegenation"? Of course they are not, and it would be useful if those who thought they were the same made some effort.
The major problem with understanding Islam for Americans is that your media simply does not allow for the existence of anything extremist fundamentalists. Imagine a world where you were only told about the most lunatic fringe christians..
=== The difference between the different Christian sects and fundamental Muslim faith is that we don't follow Sharia law. We do not do eye for eye, or take lives of non-believers. Even in the midst of the Suni religious population, we hear about many evil activites, in the name of Allah. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindi, buddist, all believe in Allah, only in their own way. Sadly the Jihadists exist, to tarnish what is normally a very tolerant people of Muslim faith.
Use this as a chance to end the embargo against Cuba. It has been 50 years, let's move on. If we can now trade with Burma and Vietnam, then why the hell should be still be fucking with Cuba?
=== Canada has been doing it for years. Cuba has poverty, because and only because of the USA embargos, but they have superb medical care, and superb university education, which is second to none. That is why Chavez went to Cuba, instead of a Cancer clinic in the USA. Better treatment and better care. Not all American for profit medical centers are there for patients.
Anyway, time for embargoes to end. The Internet will do that, and changes will come slowly, so as to protect the society. Rapid changes will cause tremendous imbalances in social programs and separate the wealthy from the poor.
The best feature of the password is that it's in your head. You carry it around everywhere, and it can never be physically taken from you.
This proposed plan just makes cellphones that much more attractive to steal.
The WORST feature of the password is that it's in your head. I have 20+ login passwords between work and home, my security is lower because you have to simplify them to remember them. If we can find a way to escape the tyranny of passwords that can generally be cracked by anyone who's determined anyway it can only be progress. Not that I have any faith in any organisation to do it after many failed or barely passable attempts (biometrics, smart cards etc).
=== We all think of single channel protections, so here is one idea.
Suppose you have a secure lockbox, that needs a single password to open it. That password would act to decrypt a set of data and indexes to password table or entries.
That is, a first password opens the box, then puts the password table into ascending order by password number. Your software asks for password xx and it is retrieved where a second security key and algorithm transforms it to what the distant software is expecting. Alternatively you do step one, send the information for step two, and the remote asks for a confirmation string as step three. It is confirmed to you, and you to it.
The thumb drive and any attachment to a system that could be monitored via the USB or even keyboard or Dongle accessory.
Ideally, you have a read-only system that is prepared for you. You boot the system and are at least sure that you are in your own secure sandbox. Do your transactions via the lockbox, and then logoff. The approach could be to use a table of yy passwords, that when sent to the host, provide a return confirmation that unlocks the session. Send yy and get yy' (yy primed) to allow an encrypted session to continue.
The best choice would be to decide the economic worth of the risks and build your security appropriately.
If you really need security, then you need a multichannel session, where parts of the message are send via alternate channels.
Because no matter what happens guns are the problem, not individuals, right?
Wow, you finally identified the the problem. Just leave guns lying on the shelf within reach of cartridges, and these guns will miraculously load themselves.
The USA at the time of the constituent was an agricultural society. Hunting, fishing, farming, was the natural culture. Guns were there for hunting and protection from bears, wildcats, coyotes, etc.
The problems in the USA are too much generosity. Generosity to the wealthy, and generosity to the corporations. The clock will always run out, only a little earlier each fiscal period.
There are reams of tax deductions that need to be chopped. And tax levels have to start progressively after reading $200k.
We know that the total US tax revenue does not cover the interest for the debt. Therefore, even if you do hold back spending, the interest on the debt cannot be paid and the debt will continue to rise.
This action has manifested itself in the prices for foreign goods (and oil) rising, as internationally, the US dollar drops in value. (Your five dollars a gallon for gas is coming soon). The tough decision is that Americans (you readers included) will have to tighten your belts. Spend less on foreign goods (toys) and purchase more domestically. Domestic spending for items may cost you as much as $200/yr more, but it will also create jobs and give revenue to governments. Invest in venture capitalists, not vulture capitalists.
The country's owners are the corporations. The citizens are clueless sheep who will do what the corporations tell them to do on fox nes.
==== Eat yourself into obesity by working overtime, drive to the drive-throughs, and not making meals at home that are fast to prepare. Its chips and coke please.
Actually there is a new study for weight loss that says Binge on alternate days, and eat very light meals the next day. The article was written up by Sharon Kirkey PostMeda News and appeared in the Montreal Gazette of today, Jan15th, 2013. Feast-then-famine diet lowers weight: Study
The full write up was about a University Prof who wrote up his findings in the journal of Metabolism.
So, perhaps the stomach pump is only required on alternate days.
What is more important is to have a sha256sum of the Cash Register program. The sum can be compared to a master copy held in the government premises. Not only that, the executed code could have some tamper resistant software to protect itself from tampering.
Well, if the health insurance companies exist for the purpose of generating a profit, and the auto insurance companies do and so on and so on, then we do exist to feed them money.
Look, if monetary exchange happened between holders instantly, wouldn't this "economy" thing all collapse as a giant shell game that is dependent upon one thing for survival, growth?
=== I sometimes wonder if the US government is interested in increasing longgevity. If adults die 4 years earlier than other countries, these 4 years offer savings to 4 years of medicade, to 4 years of pension benefits, and 4 years of drugs and 4 years of every other expense such as delayed tax revenue from estate death benefits.
We are looking at hundreds of thousands of seniors.
Slashdot Mirror
in France. :)
They come, study, get a diploma...
And go away
For all that time, free university, free medical expenses...
F*ck socialism, it killed my country.
===
Are you sure it killed your country? I would say that it opened access to your countries products because the students who returned home, had a preference for French goods and services. And of the ones who did not return, I am sure they were as many minorities, business startup people. They created businesses and developed products and services that were innovative and cost effective.
If you only look at one aspect, the competition in Universities, then you are partially right.
MIT has an intentionally open wifi setup, like everyone should.
We're having trouble with the fire Stephen Heymann petition, only like 10k signature out of the needed 25k.
What do people think we should do? Start a second more well written and informative petition perhaps?
The above statement is more or less true of all religions, but more so of extremists in the religion.
This Microsoft discussion has come home to roost. Manufacturers use the EOQ logic to determine production runs and inventory. And customers know that they can get more than adequate W7 or Linux boxes for less than the cost of a W8 UEFI system.
Since MS W8 sales are so slow, MS is going to learn to leave more frugally. They will watch the bonuses and salary increases dry up and restructuring occur.
Sadly, some very good developers are going to be on the market.
Yeah, this is true. For example Target pays $1 million each day to credit card companies due to fees. That's why they always try and get you to sign up for a store card, saving 5% on each of your transaction actually still saves them money overall. I doubt they'll switch to implementing fees now that they have the opportunity, they like to set their company policy nationally so as long as some major states have it illegal, they won't implement.
This law is more about the Mom & Pop corner stores that have always had to have a $10 minimum for credit card fees, now it might be more convenient for them to allow credit cards for a bottle of soda, provided they can up the charge and not lose money on the sale. It'll also encourage people to switch back to good old cash that way.
===
In the end, nothing is going to happen, except for retailers with big ticket items. The prices will not drop, but you will be asked for the fee amount. The fees are added to the purchase price, so state taxes will be collected against the total amount.
Next. CC companies may ask you to insure your CC against fraud. Again, the risk is yours to take. Enjoy...
I am running Russian Fedora18 spin (Via RPMFUSION -USER) and loving it. It is Fedora with all codecs, and dvd player, svn, git and it is available in English.
Russian Programmers are no different than American Programmers, and for every Russian software that is on the distribution, you get source. They actually use the Rpmfusion sources for the codecs.
Only one program that I thought should be essential, That was VLC.
how many of you would think it twice before willingly installing software from a chinese software company -- given all the news we hear recently about chinese companies being denied access to important western markets due to security reasons and all.
===
Me
I concur that. I switched to Debian after the fiasco of RH7 and never looked back.
You do know that RH 7 came out in 2000 and was discontinued after RH 9 in 2003 for Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 2. The latest release of RHEL is version 6 which will be supported for 13 years. Go to the Redhat site, they don't hide anything if you don't believe me.
Personally I don't really like the Debian distributions and prefer the Fedora/Redhat ones since I have never had many problems with Fedora Core 7 and have updated regularly all the way to Fedora 18 which IMHO is actually the best distribution to date although I would say that the new installer is a little bit cosmetically challenged, however it does what it is supposed to do and it does it well. I do think Alan Cox's statement saying that the new installer is unusable is totally wrong, although I do agree it is different.
For me to go from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 I always do a fresh install of the OS which in this case took me about 45 minutes, then it took me an additional 30 minutes to install all software i use and potentially use. Then it took me about an hour to do the updates on over 1700 packages and during that time I actually did other things such as watching a video and surfing the web on the machine I was updating.
===
I concur with you regarding Fedora. I started with Core, and never stopped installing new Fedora versions every six months. I keep 1 previous version on my system as a comparison of how much some programs have changed.
With Unity, and Gnome, I was getting carpal tunnel problems with my wrist and with the muscle controlling my left mousebutton forefinger. Too many click click clicks. Worse, the hot corner was too sensitive, and I got aggravated with windows centralizing, jumping to Maximum, jumping to reduced size,etc. etc.
I installed Cinnamon with Fedora 18, and I am delighted. I have a favourites panel where my frequent programs are always one click to initiate. I have a favourites column where a second click can launch a favourite, and with sliding along (similar layout to kde), I can start any other program. It is a very very practical improvement of Gnome2. Try it, you will like it.
Fedora 18 anaconda was rushed to release, because of design delays due to UEFI, arm, and more. The new design will be a winner.
I have written to the developers to suggest improvements and I posted requests with bugzilla. The applications are rock solid. I have no complaints here.
If you are a Fedora biggot (like me), visit rpmfusion.org, where you can learn about non-free unlicensed code. Under Users in the main page is a link to a Russian Fedora spin. I have standardized on that. The spin is in English, has all the codecs, for audio, video, and many developer facilities (Subversion, etc.). This Fedora Spin is what one does to Fedora when a new release is published.
So.. you are saying good code equals company goes bust? Straps on flameproof suit and helmet...
===
Good code means the programmers go bust and out of work. The company thrives due to low support costs.
Authors, Nancy Potevin (Nancy Jug of wine) and Patrick Du Jardiin (Patrick of the Garden) are the names and translated names (from French). Are we supposed to believe what they wrote. Are the pseudonoms to protect the professors from Monsanto?
We have a government Casino in Montreal. My wife likes to play the machines. While she does, I respond to Slashdot. My address is the wifi of the casino.
I suppose I could also do the responses from the library, or a coffee shop. If I do all three, it would only be via video cameras and some guessing that it was me doing the horrendous thing of responding to slashdot comments.
why not focus on the question of what we are going to do with all unskilled labor that is currently being replaced?
"Let them eat cake" as long as possible, followed, of course, by revolution. In this case, the revolution will, in fact, be televised. Probably won't fix anything, but not avoidable either.
===
Regarding workers who are laid off, rather than unskilled, one solution is to reduce the workweek. From 7 to 4 days. (We work seven, because of the deadline pressure, and the fact that we are salaried, as opposed to hourly.)
We should leave programming for jobs as electrician, plumber, carpenter, -- a tradesman. Tradesmen do not make super high salaries, but they rarely ever loose their jobs, rarely have strikes, and are licensed, so that you must call a certified electrician, instead of your brother-in-law.
Good programmer 80k-100k age 30 to age 45. Independent consultant thereafter with 60-80k if lucky.
Electrician 60-65k plus OTime, age 21 through 65 non stop, and with some cash under the table for holiday vacations
Could someone clue me in with all the blogging and talk about some states wanting to leave the union? Is there wedded bliss in USA land?
Igor's review of Fedora 18 was done with a mindset to finding all the flaws, and blowing up the imporatance.
Fedora 18 anaconda is version 0.9, a brand new design, a design to cover hardware that Igor does not own. Hardware with UEFI, arm, and more.
I will be as polite as I can, but Igor's review is as useful as a tit on a bull.
If he said, My sytem is a 4gig computer, with dual core operating system and xxx gigs of diskspace, and I analyzed both the 32 and 64bit systems using both the DVD and the Live DVD versions, then, for me he has credabilty.
FYI, Fedora has spins, which means versions tailored for specific users.
I use a Russian Spin ( www.rpmfusion.org, paragraph Users, and select the Russian Spin). This spin has all the extra installed software that Igor wrote about, and more. It is a delight. This spin contains all the codecs, dvd player stuff, svn, and much more goodies. I took the gnome version, did the DVD installation for both 32 and 64bit systems where minimum memory available was 3.5gigs, and adequate disk space. In one evaluation I used btfrs, in another Standard. (anaconda disk usage options).
Once installed and following two updates using yum, I redid creating the grub.cfg file. That version of Fedora 18 32bit resides alongside Fedora 17, Ubuntu, Mint14 KDE and Debian KDE/Gnome.
I am not particularly thrilled with Gnome 3.x that comes with Fedora 18, so I installed and I am using Cinnamon. Cinnamon is a delight. As little as one mouse click to start an application or switch windows. With Gnome I used to suffer with Carpal Tunnel problems for the muscle controlling my forefinger always clicking the left mouse button.
Once installed, The Russian version of Fedora 18 is great. If you have an ATI card, there are built-in drivers.
I worked in Banking software for 20 years. We were not super intelligent, but we did standardize on using julian calendar routines. We did not use Unixtime.
Unix time is definitely not a problem. I say that because we use the entire 32bit number. Want another 35 years to go with it. Assign a one byte field in the kernel. If the byte is zero, the date represented by the 32bit number precedes 2038. If it has a binary one, it is post 2038. Julian date or one based on the number of days since 1600. will make business life a date worry free activity.
You are confusing a theological problem with a sociological one.
The issue that concerns you as a non muslim is "Can or should I tar all Muslims with the same brush?"
No you shouldn't, and your actions will actually worsen relations between different groups
FYI I am not a crypto theist of any description, but I can tell when someone is simply being prejudiced
Maybe you need an example closer to your own home:
Are all Christians the same as Westboro Baptist? Is a Quaker or a Unitarian the same as a Fundamentalist Evangelical who uses biblical quotations to argue against homosexuality and "miscegenation"?
Of course they are not, and it would be useful if those who thought they were the same made some effort.
The major problem with understanding Islam for Americans is that your media simply does not allow for the existence of anything extremist fundamentalists.
Imagine a world where you were only told about the most lunatic fringe christians..
===
The difference between the different Christian sects and fundamental Muslim faith is that we don't follow Sharia law. We do not do eye for eye, or take lives of non-believers. Even in the midst of the Suni religious population, we hear about many evil activites, in the name of Allah. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindi, buddist, all believe in Allah, only in their own way. Sadly the Jihadists exist, to tarnish what is normally a very tolerant people of Muslim faith.
Use this as a chance to end the embargo against Cuba. It has been 50 years, let's move on. If we can now trade with Burma and Vietnam, then why the hell should be still be fucking with Cuba?
===
Canada has been doing it for years. Cuba has poverty, because and only because of the USA embargos, but they have superb medical care, and superb university education, which is second to none. That is why Chavez went to Cuba, instead of a Cancer clinic in the USA. Better treatment and better care. Not all American for profit medical centers are there for patients.
Anyway, time for embargoes to end. The Internet will do that, and changes will come slowly, so as to protect the society. Rapid changes will cause tremendous imbalances in social programs and separate the wealthy from the poor.
The best feature of the password is that it's in your head. You carry it around everywhere, and it can never be physically taken from you.
This proposed plan just makes cellphones that much more attractive to steal.
The WORST feature of the password is that it's in your head. I have 20+ login passwords between work and home, my security is lower because you have to simplify them to remember them. If we can find a way to escape the tyranny of passwords that can generally be cracked by anyone who's determined anyway it can only be progress. Not that I have any faith in any organisation to do it after many failed or barely passable attempts (biometrics, smart cards etc).
===
We all think of single channel protections, so here is one idea.
Suppose you have a secure lockbox, that needs a single password to open it.
That password would act to decrypt a set of data and indexes to password table or entries.
That is, a first password opens the box, then puts the password table into ascending order by password number. Your software asks for password xx and it is retrieved where a second security key and algorithm transforms it to what the distant software is expecting.
Alternatively you do step one, send the information for step two, and the remote asks for a confirmation string as step three. It is confirmed to you, and you to it.
The thumb drive and any attachment to a system that could be monitored via the USB or even keyboard or Dongle accessory.
Ideally, you have a read-only system that is prepared for you. You boot the system and are at least sure that you are in your own secure sandbox. Do your transactions via the lockbox, and then logoff. The approach could be to use a table of yy passwords, that when sent to the host, provide a return confirmation that unlocks the session. Send yy and get yy' (yy primed) to allow an encrypted session to continue.
The best choice would be to decide the economic worth of the risks and build your security appropriately.
If you really need security, then you need a multichannel session, where parts of the message are send via alternate channels.
as long as coal powers the turbines that make the electricity, that's exactly what those things are.
Time to put scrubbers and better filters on the chimnenies. Trap the soot before it goes into the air.
And if we could do the same for vehicles. Wow
Because no matter what happens guns are the problem, not individuals, right?
Wow, you finally identified the the problem. Just leave guns lying on the shelf within reach of cartridges, and these guns will miraculously load themselves.
The USA at the time of the constituent was an agricultural society. Hunting, fishing, farming, was the natural culture. Guns were there for hunting and protection from bears, wildcats, coyotes, etc.
These are gone and the guns should be gone too.
The problems in the USA are too much generosity. Generosity to the wealthy, and generosity to the corporations. The clock will always run out, only a little earlier each fiscal period.
There are reams of tax deductions that need to be chopped. And tax levels have to start progressively after reading $200k.
We know that the total US tax revenue does not cover the interest for the debt. Therefore, even if you do hold back spending, the interest on the debt cannot be paid and the debt will continue to rise.
This action has manifested itself in the prices for foreign goods (and oil) rising, as internationally, the US dollar drops in value. (Your five dollars a gallon for gas is coming soon). The tough decision is that Americans (you readers included) will have to tighten your belts. Spend less on foreign goods (toys) and purchase more domestically. Domestic spending for items may cost you as much as $200/yr more, but it will also create jobs and give revenue to governments. Invest in venture capitalists, not vulture capitalists.
The country's owners are the corporations. The citizens are clueless sheep who will do what the corporations tell them to do on fox nes.
====
Eat yourself into obesity by working overtime, drive to the drive-throughs, and not making meals at home that are fast to prepare. Its chips and coke please.
I'll take three, one for each meal.
Actually there is a new study for weight loss that says Binge on alternate days, and eat very light meals the next day.
The article was written up by Sharon Kirkey PostMeda News and appeared in the Montreal Gazette of today, Jan15th, 2013.
Feast-then-famine diet lowers weight: Study
The full write up was about a University Prof who wrote up his findings in the journal of Metabolism.
So, perhaps the stomach pump is only required on alternate days.
What is more important is to have a sha256sum of the Cash Register program. The sum can be compared to a master copy held in the government premises. Not only that, the executed code could have some tamper resistant software to protect itself from tampering.
Do you want UEFI for cash registers?
Well, if the health insurance companies exist for the purpose of generating a profit, and the auto insurance companies do and so on and so on, then we do exist to feed them money.
Look, if monetary exchange happened between holders instantly, wouldn't this "economy" thing all collapse as a giant shell game that is dependent upon one thing for survival, growth?
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I sometimes wonder if the US government is interested in increasing longgevity. If adults die 4 years earlier than other countries, these 4 years offer savings to 4 years of medicade, to 4 years of pension benefits, and 4 years of drugs and 4 years of every other expense such as delayed tax revenue from estate death benefits.
We are looking at hundreds of thousands of seniors.
Or people start getting the idea that if you can finish work in 20 hours, they can thus give you double the work.
And they want the documentation to be done in an hour. Whether it is right or wrong. Delivered!! Points scored