When you don't change the default password, it doesn't matter if you're running XP, 95, OS/2 or SELinux. When you can overlay a fake cardreader over the top of the device's real reader, it doesn't matter if you're running XP, 95, OS/2 or SELinux. When the criminal behind it is also a device admin, it doesn't matter if you're running XP, 95, OS/2 or SELinux.
They do? Then why is it I have to regularly cleanup malware on user accounts that are not running as admin?
(Fortunatly, the cleanup is nice: log in under another restricted user account, elevate, copy over their docs and desktop, then blow out their profile folder entire. It's beautiful.)
That's the problem with English classes though, IMO.
Some people will just not like the material, no matter how it's presented. So how are you supposed to get something out of material you dislike? Not only that, you HAVE to get something out of it. You can't write a 5-7 page paper on why this book bored you to tears. (I've tried. It did not go over well.)
There's just too much "you must read This Title" and not enough "you must read" in English classes.
I've read Dante. I like Dante. Or Clarke, Burgess, Dumas. Maybe there just needs to be more modern works. Instead of analysing Shakespeare for a play (cause...honestly, there was a point I believed he was the only person who wrote plays. Ever.), how about some Mamet or Sondheim?
Instead of Dickens or Faulkner, how about Cormac McCarthy? And I see nothing wrong with putting some popular works in there too. Crichton, and yes, even Rowling.
Humanity didn't stop writing after the 1950s, but that's all that's ever taught, it seemed for me.
Hemmingway isn't for everyone. Nor is Dante. To blithely avoid classics as boring represents an incredibly dismissive attitude. You don't have to masochistic and expose yourself to needless pain, rather, learn something.
Except we do have to take English classes in High School. My senior year we had to read eightish novels. These included: Heart of Darkness, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, 1984, The Sound and the Fury, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, sections of the Bible (as literature; say what you will about the content, it's pretty much the only example of the written word in it's context) and Hamlet.
The two I enjoyed most we spent the least amount of time on. Crime & Punishment (which I had read earlier; traded someone my copy of Jane Eyre. We both got the better end of the deal) and 1984 (which we literally spent one week on).
Everything else was dull and uninteresting to me, but because of the class, I was required to read them. All I acquired was a further dislike for the 'classic' novel.
But it was Microsoft doing all the pressuring to get it adopted. So even if they weren't the writer or director, they took producer credit (and that's the credit that ends up with the Best Picture statue).
Yep: even if it is technically cheaper to play ball with an extortionist, neither IBM nor Novell will do this.
Open the doors to one, and you'll have others knocking on the door. Pound that first one into a fine powder, the survival instinct of the others will kick in.
Exactly. You can't use snowfall in one season as a measuring stick, but people constantly go "Oh, snow. Global warming must be a lie," when what actually happened was the whole climate system got jacked up.
Whether or not 40 years is enough justification to make policy is more philisophical in nature.
My personal thoughts on it are we should do what we can to decrease our footprint. Even if the trend is natural, there's plenty of other reasons outside of temperature to do so.
Also, if the deniers are wrong and we actually are impacting our environment, what then?
Remember, while you were shovelling 9 feet of snow, Vancouver had to truck it in for the Olympics and south Alaska was having record highs. (The usual Arctic wind that keeps those places cool got pushed south a lot.)
Admittedly, trying to justify it with everything that happens is moronic. Weather patterns are massively complex. In the end, what you have to look at is the year to year trend, and by that measure, 200X was the hottest decade on record.
Yeah, gotta say, for a company that doesn't invent stuff... how'd they make a laser skeeter killer? I thought a patent troll (like, say, NTP) doesn't go through the trouble of manual labor outside of signing the checks to lawyers.
Would it have been more cost-effective to send out a second request (or even a Census Bureau representative) to the locations where a census form was sent but not returned a month after the original mailing?
In answer to the representative part, that's a flat out NO. (Seriously, when has it ever been cheaper to send someone physcially on site than send out a mailer?)
The other is a bit more complex. First, time is a critical factor. These decide how the districts will be gerrymandered^Wredrawn and allocate seating in the House. (In 2000, Utah was less than 500 people away from getting another rep; instead it went to NC. Did people just ignore the form in Utah or were they really 500 short? Side note, there was a legal fight over it.) We have to be ready to have those districts drawn and ready for campaigning in 2012.
If we wait for a reply, how long do we wait? It takes time for the second form to get mailed out, and if that one gets ignored someone will still have to go out.
The official reasoning behind the pre-mailer is that it basically lets people know the form is coming. And, frankly, I can actually see that as an argument. It makes you psychologically expect the census form rather than be surprised on the day you get it.
We can debate endlessly about whether it's wasteful or not, but I personally doubt the Census department would have sent those out if they did not honestly, truly believe it would be beneficial, because it's a PERFECT target for people to complain about gov't waste, practically Alaskan bridge in magnitude.
The real question is, does it matter? Ok, so census data is kept secure. What about every other form you've filled out that asks the same questions, or similar questions. Or just plain ol Google datamining?
What difference does it make if this data over here is locked up tight when this same data over here is plastered all over the interwebs?
I'm pretty certain lungs in California function the same as lungs in Wyoming, Texas and Maine just as I'm pretty certain salmonella from CA spinach will get you sick just like salmonella off GA peanuts.
Pollutants and bacteria don't suddenly go, "oh, we're in another state; better turn off our receptors." It just doesn't make sense to require each state to do their own legwork and pass their own laws in these matters.
In regards to the example, the only things up in the air are the states. There are regions that CANNOT import gas from other regions.
I can say pretty safely assume that California can't import gas meant for other regions of the US. (Yes, I picked assume on purpose. It's a confidence level of 5 9s, but I'm not going to dig into these regulations any more than what I already know...heh)
And the other replier has it right. You need regulations not just on growing, but on importing. Certain states could allow or deny based on pesticides, fertilizers, certain genetic strains (see Monsanto). Different levels of strictness could be applied to the use of 'organic.' Different regulations could be applied to corn used for ethanol production compared to human consumption.
There's many many variables that are set, and to give states the ability to pick their own would likely result in a massive quagmire of regulations promoted by special interests that farmers and shippers would have to adapt to.
If the people that live in your state are also fond of those things, your State government would protect those anyway.
Yeah, because it makes much more sense to have 50 different regulations on corn.
Here's some trivia: there are (from one source I found) 18 different variants of gasoline to adhere to regulations across the country. This means (as a possible example) gas from Iowa can't be sent to California if the former has a surplus and the latter is running a deficit.
Only from a governing perspective can that remotely make sense.
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When you don't change the default password, it doesn't matter if you're running XP, 95, OS/2 or SELinux.
When you can overlay a fake cardreader over the top of the device's real reader, it doesn't matter if you're running XP, 95, OS/2 or SELinux.
When the criminal behind it is also a device admin, it doesn't matter if you're running XP, 95, OS/2 or SELinux.
How safe do you feel knowing that?
Except in the US, the company would fight it first and ask questions later. Sounds like EU is more customer friendly.
They do? Then why is it I have to regularly cleanup malware on user accounts that are not running as admin?
(Fortunatly, the cleanup is nice: log in under another restricted user account, elevate, copy over their docs and desktop, then blow out their profile folder entire. It's beautiful.)
We can still hold out hope for Cormac McCarthy.
That's the problem with English classes though, IMO.
Some people will just not like the material, no matter how it's presented. So how are you supposed to get something out of material you dislike? Not only that, you HAVE to get something out of it. You can't write a 5-7 page paper on why this book bored you to tears. (I've tried. It did not go over well.)
There's just too much "you must read This Title" and not enough "you must read" in English classes.
I've read Dante. I like Dante. Or Clarke, Burgess, Dumas. Maybe there just needs to be more modern works. Instead of analysing Shakespeare for a play (cause...honestly, there was a point I believed he was the only person who wrote plays. Ever.), how about some Mamet or Sondheim?
Instead of Dickens or Faulkner, how about Cormac McCarthy? And I see nothing wrong with putting some popular works in there too. Crichton, and yes, even Rowling.
Humanity didn't stop writing after the 1950s, but that's all that's ever taught, it seemed for me.
In light of this new information that you did not have, NOW what do you think about the use of a gunship, and the order to go ahead and fire?
They're still trigger happy nutjobs.
And remember most of the critics gave bad review to Moby Dick in it's day. (go figure).
Bah, Moby Dick deserved it.
Although in it's defense, if I'm ever stuck on a whaling ship I sure as shit will know how to skin and de-blubber a whale.
Hemmingway isn't for everyone. Nor is Dante. To blithely avoid classics as boring represents an incredibly dismissive attitude. You don't have to masochistic and expose yourself to needless pain, rather, learn something.
Except we do have to take English classes in High School. My senior year we had to read eightish novels. These included: Heart of Darkness, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, 1984, The Sound and the Fury, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, sections of the Bible (as literature; say what you will about the content, it's pretty much the only example of the written word in it's context) and Hamlet.
The two I enjoyed most we spent the least amount of time on. Crime & Punishment (which I had read earlier; traded someone my copy of Jane Eyre. We both got the better end of the deal) and 1984 (which we literally spent one week on).
Everything else was dull and uninteresting to me, but because of the class, I was required to read them. All I acquired was a further dislike for the 'classic' novel.
This is about an iPhone docking station, essentially.
Not software.
At least checkout the links before blindly spouting off something that, while still likely to get a +5 insightful, is -infinite Offtopic.
But it was Microsoft doing all the pressuring to get it adopted. So even if they weren't the writer or director, they took producer credit (and that's the credit that ends up with the Best Picture statue).
The best part it's their own standard they're ignoring, not someone else's halfcocked 'standard' like CSS or XML.
Yep: even if it is technically cheaper to play ball with an extortionist, neither IBM nor Novell will do this.
Open the doors to one, and you'll have others knocking on the door. Pound that first one into a fine powder, the survival instinct of the others will kick in.
You're sure? You were in the car looking at his feet when it happened? ...What kind of shoe was he wearing?
Exactly. You can't use snowfall in one season as a measuring stick, but people constantly go "Oh, snow. Global warming must be a lie," when what actually happened was the whole climate system got jacked up.
Whether or not 40 years is enough justification to make policy is more philisophical in nature.
My personal thoughts on it are we should do what we can to decrease our footprint. Even if the trend is natural, there's plenty of other reasons outside of temperature to do so.
Also, if the deniers are wrong and we actually are impacting our environment, what then?
I don't know of an OS that hasn't been attacked with a fake dialog trying to trick a user.
From the comments I see here regularly, apparently Linux and OS X.
Local weather != global climate.
Remember, while you were shovelling 9 feet of snow, Vancouver had to truck it in for the Olympics and south Alaska was having record highs. (The usual Arctic wind that keeps those places cool got pushed south a lot.)
Admittedly, trying to justify it with everything that happens is moronic. Weather patterns are massively complex. In the end, what you have to look at is the year to year trend, and by that measure, 200X was the hottest decade on record.
Yeah, gotta say, for a company that doesn't invent stuff... how'd they make a laser skeeter killer? I thought a patent troll (like, say, NTP) doesn't go through the trouble of manual labor outside of signing the checks to lawyers.
Yeah...it's not exactly covering the plate; isn't that the first 7 characters on the left?
One database is much easier to search than thousands of them especially once 'inconsistencies' are found.
Like...Google?
Would it have been more cost-effective to send out a second request (or even a Census Bureau representative) to the locations where a census form was sent but not returned a month after the original mailing?
In answer to the representative part, that's a flat out NO. (Seriously, when has it ever been cheaper to send someone physcially on site than send out a mailer?)
The other is a bit more complex. First, time is a critical factor. These decide how the districts will be gerrymandered^Wredrawn and allocate seating in the House. (In 2000, Utah was less than 500 people away from getting another rep; instead it went to NC. Did people just ignore the form in Utah or were they really 500 short? Side note, there was a legal fight over it.) We have to be ready to have those districts drawn and ready for campaigning in 2012.
If we wait for a reply, how long do we wait? It takes time for the second form to get mailed out, and if that one gets ignored someone will still have to go out.
The official reasoning behind the pre-mailer is that it basically lets people know the form is coming. And, frankly, I can actually see that as an argument. It makes you psychologically expect the census form rather than be surprised on the day you get it.
We can debate endlessly about whether it's wasteful or not, but I personally doubt the Census department would have sent those out if they did not honestly, truly believe it would be beneficial, because it's a PERFECT target for people to complain about gov't waste, practically Alaskan bridge in magnitude.
The real question is, does it matter? Ok, so census data is kept secure. What about every other form you've filled out that asks the same questions, or similar questions. Or just plain ol Google datamining?
What difference does it make if this data over here is locked up tight when this same data over here is plastered all over the interwebs?
I'm pretty certain lungs in California function the same as lungs in Wyoming, Texas and Maine just as I'm pretty certain salmonella from CA spinach will get you sick just like salmonella off GA peanuts.
Pollutants and bacteria don't suddenly go, "oh, we're in another state; better turn off our receptors." It just doesn't make sense to require each state to do their own legwork and pass their own laws in these matters.
Plus it's not a register-able trademark
You must excel at your access to exchange in an office with windows. Word.
In regards to the example, the only things up in the air are the states. There are regions that CANNOT import gas from other regions.
I can say pretty safely assume that California can't import gas meant for other regions of the US. (Yes, I picked assume on purpose. It's a confidence level of 5 9s, but I'm not going to dig into these regulations any more than what I already know...heh)
And the other replier has it right. You need regulations not just on growing, but on importing. Certain states could allow or deny based on pesticides, fertilizers, certain genetic strains (see Monsanto). Different levels of strictness could be applied to the use of 'organic.' Different regulations could be applied to corn used for ethanol production compared to human consumption.
There's many many variables that are set, and to give states the ability to pick their own would likely result in a massive quagmire of regulations promoted by special interests that farmers and shippers would have to adapt to.
If the people that live in your state are also fond of those things, your State government would protect those anyway.
Yeah, because it makes much more sense to have 50 different regulations on corn.
Here's some trivia: there are (from one source I found) 18 different variants of gasoline to adhere to regulations across the country. This means (as a possible example) gas from Iowa can't be sent to California if the former has a surplus and the latter is running a deficit.
Only from a governing perspective can that remotely make sense.