Um... The only reason I've ever heard given for outsourcing was money. When the hell did they invent this other bullshit, spread it and have people buy into it, and then do a study debunking it?
Worm devlopers are smart enough not to flood thier connections. It's much better to have 5 bots at 20% cap who never get detected than one at 100% that gets shut down.
They didn't used to be this smart, but then it became big enough business that they got into customer service.
I live in downtown San Francisco. If I put my laptop in my kitchen window I can pick up 46 wireless networks.
2 of them are WPA-PSK (including mine) 12 of the are unsecured. The rest are WEP.
7 of the WEP encrypted ones are the DSL router/wireless access point that AT&T hands out. As far as I can tell this piece of hardware can't be configured in any way, can't even change your WEP key.
I only have a passing familiarity with the good old DSM-IV, but it seems we're delving into the mental health realm when someone is habitually pushing their constant doings on their friends, family, co-workers, classmates, acquaintances, enemies and casual strangers.
Okay, they don't cover attention whoring in the DSM.
Not to mention what kind of insecurity do you have that you don't feel any kind of connection to your friends unless you're know exactly what they're doing at every moment.
I had a stalker like that in college. Tried applying a restraining order, but even that didn't work.
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Avoiding taxes is perfectly lawful. It's what tax shelters are all about, and why good accountants get big bucks.
As far as I can tell, what the government calls "Profit laundering" is perfectly legal. It's no different than my corporation paying out year end bonuses so we don't have to report a profit. (It's not my fault if the bonus getters want to reinvest that in the company.)
If the US wants to keep its tax revenue they're going to have to be more competitive. The only thing that's keeping many large American companies from moving offshore is social pressure. If the government keeps ratcheting up the pressure they'll go anyway.
As others have said, it's really up to those who visit your site.
If I was deploying a new web application I would start by writing it to standards and making it work with IE and FF out of the box. Then I'd keep track of what browsers hit my main page.
Then I'd make a simple business decision: if (potentialLostRevenue > costToImplement)
implement_browser(someBrowser)
Lets say it will take $1500 worth of manpower to implement Opera. If I'm potentially turning away $5K in business from Opera users, I'd implement it. If I'm potentially turning away $200, forget it.
Despite what others have said about Mac users being flush and careless with disposable income, I've found sell-through rates to be roughly the same (within 15%) between OS/browser.
Seems most of his public work has almost nothing to do with being a lawyer, and everything to do with hating video games. Don't think getting disbarred will have much impact.
There's always some anti-game lobby he could be the front for.
As an aside, I think this whole "hating the hater" is sad. He's that flaming bag of dog shit outside your front door. Stepping on it doesn't help the bag or your shoes.
Acrobat reader is widely known to be a resource hog, but banning PDFs is short sighted and reactionary. It's like banning shoes because you tripped once.
Foxit. Windows and (now) Linux. Takes about 1/2 a second to open.
Are there security forces with RF triangulation gear?
At best security would walk around looking for people using laptops and ask them what they're up to. With a 200mW signal that's a much larger area to patrol. Of course the perps run it in their travel bag so no one will see it.
Wish I hadn't burned my mod points on trolls. This was my first thought. If you're filling out anything more complex than an EZ form, have a human do it. It will pay for its self.
Maybe not H&R Block, but a trained professional.
However I've had good luck with H&R. Go in the off season and you'll find actual accountants who are full-time employees. Go in April and you'll find it almost all temp data-entry people.
Tried Google docs pretty extensively (back when it was Writely) It's functionality covers about 99% of what I need in a word processor. But it's slower than somethign running locally.
However the big killer is that my documents go away when either the server goes down or the internet is unavailable.
I can carry my laptop everywhere. I can't get reliable internet connections everywhere. Even reliable electricity is hard some places.
It' a nice idea, and I'll try it again in a couple years. But I'd rather see a service that I can deploy on my own server so my documents are really the property of my organization.
"The discoverer was a computer in France, owned by Eric Vautier."
I never felt like I should be allowed to take credit for what my screen saver does. Espcially since the whole point is that it does it when I'm not doing anything.
'Course this will all be sorted out when computers can vote.
That's news to me. I have used Oo on Windows for two years, almost daily and have had not a single crash.
I'm not going to say that my experience is typical, I don't have enough data points, but I do know that my computer has a glitchy graphics driver that makes it take a dive at inopportune times, and having an application I sue daily never ever close unexpectedly is almost a mystery.
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That's pretty much the list that I made before I got to your post.
And what happens when you change your password?
Have a drink with dinner?
Are distracted by [child/tv/phone call/pron/cat/meteor shower]?
Are in a hurry because someone has a gun to your head or a hand down your pants?
I'm absolutely sure that my typing changes based on the time of day.
I'm sure this works in controlled experiments, but not worth paying any attention to outside of a academic paper.
I'd argue "lazy" if you haven't bothered to try it since 1.0.
So how do you throw a corporation in prison again?
Um... The only reason I've ever heard given for outsourcing was money. When the hell did they invent this other bullshit, spread it and have people buy into it, and then do a study debunking it?
Was I too busy working?
Worm devlopers are smart enough not to flood thier connections. It's much better to have 5 bots at 20% cap who never get detected than one at 100% that gets shut down.
They didn't used to be this smart, but then it became big enough business that they got into customer service.
I live in downtown San Francisco. If I put my laptop in my kitchen window I can pick up 46 wireless networks.
2 of them are WPA-PSK (including mine)
12 of the are unsecured.
The rest are WEP.
7 of the WEP encrypted ones are the DSL router/wireless access point that AT&T hands out. As far as I can tell this piece of hardware can't be configured in any way, can't even change your WEP key.
I was going to reply to this, but the network went down in the middle and I couldn't save it.
I only have a passing familiarity with the good old DSM-IV, but it seems we're delving into the mental health realm when someone is habitually pushing their constant doings on their friends, family, co-workers, classmates, acquaintances, enemies and casual strangers.
Okay, they don't cover attention whoring in the DSM.
Not to mention what kind of insecurity do you have that you don't feel any kind of connection to your friends unless you're know exactly what they're doing at every moment.
I had a stalker like that in college. Tried applying a restraining order, but even that didn't work.
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Avoiding taxes is perfectly lawful. It's what tax shelters are all about, and why good accountants get big bucks.
As far as I can tell, what the government calls "Profit laundering" is perfectly legal. It's no different than my corporation paying out year end bonuses so we don't have to report a profit. (It's not my fault if the bonus getters want to reinvest that in the company.)
If the US wants to keep its tax revenue they're going to have to be more competitive. The only thing that's keeping many large American companies from moving offshore is social pressure. If the government keeps ratcheting up the pressure they'll go anyway.
You're assuming people will do it for the money. There are plenty of other reasons to crack open a system.
As others have said, it's really up to those who visit your site.
If I was deploying a new web application I would start by writing it to standards and making it work with IE and FF out of the box. Then I'd keep track of what browsers hit my main page.
Then I'd make a simple business decision:
if (potentialLostRevenue > costToImplement)
implement_browser(someBrowser)
Lets say it will take $1500 worth of manpower to implement Opera. If I'm potentially turning away $5K in business from Opera users, I'd implement it. If I'm potentially turning away $200, forget it.
Despite what others have said about Mac users being flush and careless with disposable income, I've found sell-through rates to be roughly the same (within 15%) between OS/browser.
Seems most of his public work has almost nothing to do with being a lawyer, and everything to do with hating video games. Don't think getting disbarred will have much impact.
There's always some anti-game lobby he could be the front for.
As an aside, I think this whole "hating the hater" is sad. He's that flaming bag of dog shit outside your front door. Stepping on it doesn't help the bag or your shoes.
Acrobat reader is widely known to be a resource hog, but banning PDFs is short sighted and reactionary. It's like banning shoes because you tripped once.
Foxit. Windows and (now) Linux. Takes about 1/2 a second to open.
If you have a Mac, you have a slick one built in.
The -one- cool phone they bring over from Japan and they uglify it.
And strip half the features and change twice at much. Guess that's what took two years.
(Link to original phone.)
Ever buy a newspaper or a magazine? Or clothes with a logo on it?
So someone running a local server at the airport just got your cc number and associated details...
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
Are there security forces with RF triangulation gear?
At best security would walk around looking for people using laptops and ask them what they're up to. With a 200mW signal that's a much larger area to patrol. Of course the perps run it in their travel bag so no one will see it.
Yeah. A kid getting into a secure area would be inconceivable .
But probably wouldn't need that since there's a wireless access point somewhere around there.
Then add something.
Whoops, my fault. Being a hater is easier.
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Wish I hadn't burned my mod points on trolls. This was my first thought. If you're filling out anything more complex than an EZ form, have a human do it. It will pay for its self.
Maybe not H&R Block, but a trained professional.
However I've had good luck with H&R. Go in the off season and you'll find actual accountants who are full-time employees. Go in April and you'll find it almost all temp data-entry people.
Tried Google docs pretty extensively (back when it was Writely) It's functionality covers about 99% of what I need in a word processor. But it's slower than somethign running locally.
However the big killer is that my documents go away when either the server goes down or the internet is unavailable.
I can carry my laptop everywhere. I can't get reliable internet connections everywhere. Even reliable electricity is hard some places.
It' a nice idea, and I'll try it again in a couple years. But I'd rather see a service that I can deploy on my own server so my documents are really the property of my organization.
Maybe for your bank. My old bank required IE. "For security reasons."
"The discoverer was a computer in France, owned by Eric Vautier."
I never felt like I should be allowed to take credit for what my screen saver does. Espcially since the whole point is that it does it when I'm not doing anything.
'Course this will all be sorted out when computers can vote.
That's news to me. I have used Oo on Windows for two years, almost daily and have had not a single crash.
I'm not going to say that my experience is typical, I don't have enough data points, but I do know that my computer has a glitchy graphics driver that makes it take a dive at inopportune times, and having an application I sue daily never ever close unexpectedly is almost a mystery.