And can you equivically state that the insurance company would not have raised rates if this bill failed, or if this health care debate never happened?
Since 1999 [to 2009], health insurance premiums for families rose 131%, the report found, far more than the general rate of inflation, which increased 28% over the same period. Overall, health care in the United States is expected to cost $2.6 trillion this year, or 17% of the nation's economy, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
Sounds to me like it's just business as usual for the insurance co., they just have a good scapegoat this year.
However there ARE legitimate scholars who study the bible as a work of literature and history. Translations, interpretations, writing styles, geography, politics.
I see no reason to group the same people who paint Lev 18:22 on placards in the same group who simply treat the bible like Shakespeare's first folio.
We need a reason for a GUI change? Heck, we should be used to pointless GUI changes by now. Half the changes between major Windows releases is GUI...and a non-trivial amount of those is just renaming shit.
(It is, and always will be, the SYSTEM TRAY you wankers! You can take your "notification area" and shove it up the deepest, darkest crevice of your gastro-intestinal tract.)
And, really, is this so much of a gamebreaker that it can't be changed by a plugin? (I'm actually legitimatly curious on this part...)
I must have missed that memo from the English Academy. What day did that happen?
Yes, I'll agree if someone says 'camera' in a non-film/celluloid specific context I'll probably assume it's referring to a digital camera, but in what way are we damaging the language (moreso) by using digicam?
You give criminals too much credit. Ok, so it's a big 'if.' It's akin to gambling. You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
And if Waledac is just one network they have, it'd be easier to give up one.
Anyway, going back to Mariposa, it *did* take bringing down the network to get the people behind it. So to find those in control, perhaps you must first take control.
Seriously, though, if the controllers are smart, we'll never catch them. Look at the Mariposa botnet. From what I read about that, while law enforcement got the network down, they didn't have any of the people. It took the bold, stubborn move of one of the controllers trying to regain command (from his own system no less) to catch the people behind it. If the operators walked away, what are the odds we'd catch them?
Useless in what way? Sure, on a global scale spam is still rampant, but they did show the tactic used has promise and worth pursuing.
True, we can't say for certain whether the tactic actually cut the head from the body or if operations were just moved to a new botnet and the original Waledac CENTCOM let MS think they had their victory but it's something, which is a little bit more than we had prior.
*nix without admin rights, and their home dir mounted no_exec with backup taken every 6 hours, admined by dell/HP/etc. No way to install a new app, and no way to run something from the home dir, problem solved.
I guess we need to add the criteria of 'user needs to be productive'.
You can do that in Windows as well, by the way. GPOs and NTFS permissions are wonderful little toys.
If there's a growing number of Vista and Win 7 machines then someone should get back to MS and let them know whatever they're doing ain't working.
OS gains popularity, users on said OS want to see their dancing bunnies.
An operating system is only as secure as the user behind it. I'd guarentee most of the people around here could run a secure, stable Windows system AND be productive on it. But these are the same people who know to surf with adblock, noscript, a firewall and NOT go looking for dancing bunnies.
From the WHOI press release: "ABE was equipped with several independent systems to bring it back to the surface at the end of a dive or should a fault occur. The Melville remained in the vicinity to see if ABE had resurfaced, at first searching for ABE’s strobe lights in the darkness. Researchers tried to establish radio contact with ABE in the event it had surfaced, but attempts turned up nothing."
Protip: the people that design these things can, and likely do, fit square pegs in round holes.
Suggesting "durrr, attach a balloon" is, in my not very humble opinion, insulting to the engineers behind these things.
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And can you equivically state that the insurance company would not have raised rates if this bill failed, or if this health care debate never happened?
Hint: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm
Sounds to me like it's just business as usual for the insurance co., they just have a good scapegoat this year.
Darn, and I was fond of the FDA and the 40 hour work week...
It's not a swimming pool, it's a reflecting pool! There's nothing in your guidelines about reflecting pools. They're very tranquil, you'll like it.
However there ARE legitimate scholars who study the bible as a work of literature and history. Translations, interpretations, writing styles, geography, politics.
I see no reason to group the same people who paint Lev 18:22 on placards in the same group who simply treat the bible like Shakespeare's first folio.
Man, that lady's got a huge ass.
Those could be anyone's thoughts!
Horsey to pointy guy six.
Hmm... Get him, boys!
We need a reason for a GUI change? Heck, we should be used to pointless GUI changes by now. Half the changes between major Windows releases is GUI...and a non-trivial amount of those is just renaming shit.
(It is, and always will be, the SYSTEM TRAY you wankers! You can take your "notification area" and shove it up the deepest, darkest crevice of your gastro-intestinal tract.)
And, really, is this so much of a gamebreaker that it can't be changed by a plugin? (I'm actually legitimatly curious on this part...)
He did. He said it's welcome.
That still does not mean Canonical will do what the complainers want.
Those people, however, are the rare exception. The very very rare exception.
or a deluge of requests (these figures should appropriately be compared to the overall requests, right?)
That's the first thing that crossed my mind. For example, Hawaii is still getting hit with requests for Obama's birth records.
If someone requests 10 times something that's legitimately blockable, do those 10 still count to the denied requests?
I must have missed that memo from the English Academy. What day did that happen?
Yes, I'll agree if someone says 'camera' in a non-film/celluloid specific context I'll probably assume it's referring to a digital camera, but in what way are we damaging the language (moreso) by using digicam?
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If you want to rub even more salt in his wound, point out that Google owns Blogspot!
I wholeheartedly agree! Oh I miss the days when I used a modulator-demodulator to aid in my reception of electronic mail...
You give criminals too much credit. Ok, so it's a big 'if.' It's akin to gambling. You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
And if Waledac is just one network they have, it'd be easier to give up one.
Anyway, going back to Mariposa, it *did* take bringing down the network to get the people behind it. So to find those in control, perhaps you must first take control.
Pining for the fjords.
If it's that easy why haven't you done it?
Seriously, though, if the controllers are smart, we'll never catch them. Look at the Mariposa botnet. From what I read about that, while law enforcement got the network down, they didn't have any of the people. It took the bold, stubborn move of one of the controllers trying to regain command (from his own system no less) to catch the people behind it. If the operators walked away, what are the odds we'd catch them?
Useless in what way? Sure, on a global scale spam is still rampant, but they did show the tactic used has promise and worth pursuing.
True, we can't say for certain whether the tactic actually cut the head from the body or if operations were just moved to a new botnet and the original Waledac CENTCOM let MS think they had their victory but it's something, which is a little bit more than we had prior.
It's recognized to the extent it's an option on the census form.
Which...if you read the article...nm, I see my logic flaw here.
Thanks, now i'll have the image of a flatulent, heavily armored elephant with me the rest of the day.
*nix without admin rights, and their home dir mounted no_exec with backup taken every 6 hours, admined by dell/HP/etc. No way to install a new app, and no way to run something from the home dir, problem solved.
I guess we need to add the criteria of 'user needs to be productive'.
You can do that in Windows as well, by the way. GPOs and NTFS permissions are wonderful little toys.
"Mister Spock, you misunderstand us. We can be against him and admire him all at the same time."
"Illogical."
"Totally."
--Space Seed
If there's a growing number of Vista and Win 7 machines then someone should
get back to MS and let them know whatever they're doing ain't working.
OS gains popularity, users on said OS want to see their dancing bunnies.
An operating system is only as secure as the user behind it. I'd guarentee most of the people around here could run a secure, stable Windows system AND be productive on it. But these are the same people who know to surf with adblock, noscript, a firewall and NOT go looking for dancing bunnies.
The solution, is obvious too: use another operating system.
And when the windows l^Husers switch to another operating system and want to see their dancing bunnies, then what?
That, or the fact that 'benthic' is an adjective referring to the bottom of the ocean.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/benthic
From the WHOI press release: "ABE was equipped with several independent systems to bring it back to the surface at the end of a dive or should a fault occur. The Melville remained in the vicinity to see if ABE had resurfaced, at first searching for ABE’s strobe lights in the darkness. Researchers tried to establish radio contact with ABE in the event it had surfaced, but attempts turned up nothing."
Protip: the people that design these things can, and likely do, fit square pegs in round holes.
Suggesting "durrr, attach a balloon" is, in my not very humble opinion, insulting to the engineers behind these things.