You've put your finger on what's bothering me with this whole product.... I believe that anything more complex than a brick will have a devil of a time being 100% perfectly coated with what I would imagine is a clear coating. Seams, motors, electrical connectors and sockets, hinges, you name it would all have to be wonderfully coated to be protected....
And as a result, it would be almost impossible to state with certainty that it is in fact protected. So what's the point of spending $1,000, to achieve the state of being "almost waterproof"?
Of course, when the damn thing leaks water after all, I'm sure the vendor will claim:
"That's not water damage, the WIND drove the water into your device, and if you read the guarantee very carefully, you'll see that wind damage is excluded from coverage."
To me, the money here is targeting the user to feed him/her ("them") ads based on what that user has already seen, queried, etc.
Yet, NebuAd says the data they collect is not "personally" identifiable. I'll bet a six-pack that the data is damn-sure "individually" identifiable by cookies, etc.
"Personally" just means they're not selling my name along with my surfing habits. But they are very much tracking my individual habits/interest and selling that; user by individual user. I say send them back to tele-marketing, the scum-bags.
The judge's order to deny sanctions noted that the entire case against the guy had already been withdrawn, hence with no case proceeding, no sanctions were relevant. But you can bet he'll be looking at the firm and their wayward process servers the next time they show up...
Amen. For this type of reason, I'm not a fan of using PC's for POS systems. A PC is too much a general function machine, what with a wide variety of ports, drives, and a large case to hold them. Having to supply counter real estate (in 3D) for all that as well as the monitor and the keyboard can be too much for a little shop, especially when the data needs are numerical summary data only.
These electronic cash registers are designed to have their collected data extracted from them in some fashion, so the logical place to start is the cash register vendors themselves to find out how it can be retrieved and the software systems that can use it. Something integrated with the accounting system/bank reconciliation would be nice. If it's a hard process, then that's likely the machine to avoid.
The second question, in fact should probably be the first, is to decide exactly what kind of data is to be collected: bar-code data, department codes, and the number of different sales taxes applicable to the site. These kind of questions will dictate the complexity of the machine to be purchased.
All cash registers will do the normal daily control functions, running and daily totals. What you're looking for a machine that will deliver higher-level data to support the management of the business, so you need to start with those management objectives, then see how the extraction process fits into the accounting system, and only then decide on a machine to support those systems.
No, I believe the new Gatekeepers will be the ISP's who will throttle and promote various websites in an internet version of Payola. Net Neutrality will be neutral in name only.
So, does deleting my cookies (please, no food jokes) on a regular basis, thwart their intentions, or are they sending home more traceable stuff, like the MAC address?
Asking Microsoft to specify a program's network access would interfere with their ridiculous desire to staple.NET onto everything. I swear Solitaire will be next....
Don't count out the "strikes" you mentioned. The client could very well submit a complaint to the appropriate State Bar Association (the judge could, but I doubt it), who will then begin an investigation. It could take a long time, but various State Bar Associations don't treat this conduct lightly. To me, this conduct is approaching Fraud upon the Court and could mean significant trouble for those lawyers.
I read a bit of background on this http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202990197454 and noted that the judge in pre-trial motions restricted the construction of the patent claim to fairly narrow grounds. But in the trial, the lawyers ignored that restriction and, among other things, showed the jury how the two competing products were similar rather than showing how the competing product used their client's patent. If effect, the jury based their reasoning on improper evidence. The judge rightfully tossed the verdict and slammed the lawyers for their deceitfulness.
Had something similar when I was working for a heavy construction company. Used to take out the old hard drives and take them down to the welding shop. They always enjoyed torching a hole through the spindle and liquefying everything inside the case...
Because I see this as not an end result, but as a beginning. I've often thought that the entirety of all human faces could be described by a similar, discrete set of variables. Know the variables, know the values for a person's face, and voila, you can recreate a particular person's face from a simple database.
This test might even be buildable from data within a DNA sample. Then, you're not creating just an oak tree, but THAT particular oak tree out back....
Back in "those days", my dad used to talk people engaging about guerrilla warfare against Ma Bell by underpaying their phone bills by $0.01 because all those people and all those bytes stored on their accounts receivable tapes was a real burden. Cheap memory takes all the fun out of it.
Yes, I do, or did, anyway, until another/.er helped me out with the missing concept.
Problem is, a lot of what's supposed to be consumed as more-or-less objective news these days is actually generated by astro-turf organizations looking to push their particular agenda. One of the clues to identifying such nonsense is the invitation to *imagine* potentially catastrophic consequences, a.k.a. think-of-the-children syndrome.
It's one thing to alert the public to a uranium spill and the potential for contamination. But when the alarm was raised that the liquid could have gone, quite literally, nuclear, that's when my BS alarms went off and I questioned the source and motive of the story.
I'm sorry, but I missed something. If it's in the container, it's safe, but if it's loose on the floor, it's liable to start a chain reaction? That just doesn't sound right. I smell an ulterior motive in this story.
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And as a result, it would be almost impossible to state with certainty that it is in fact protected. So what's the point of spending $1,000, to achieve the state of being "almost waterproof"?
"That's not water damage, the WIND drove the water into your device, and if you read the guarantee very carefully, you'll see that wind damage is excluded from coverage."
This thing has snake-oil written all over it.
So in Soviet Russia, the government would simply contact Facebook to watch you for them, or they would contact the telephone company.... oh, wait....
Yet, NebuAd says the data they collect is not "personally" identifiable. I'll bet a six-pack that the data is damn-sure "individually" identifiable by cookies, etc.
"Personally" just means they're not selling my name along with my surfing habits. But they are very much tracking my individual habits/interest and selling that; user by individual user. I say send them back to tele-marketing, the scum-bags.
So don't delete it. Just run msconfig.exe and disable it.
I heard they shipped it back to you already, through Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport.
The judge's order to deny sanctions noted that the entire case against the guy had already been withdrawn, hence with no case proceeding, no sanctions were relevant. But you can bet he'll be looking at the firm and their wayward process servers the next time they show up...
Focus on the data needs of the business!
These electronic cash registers are designed to have their collected data extracted from them in some fashion, so the logical place to start is the cash register vendors themselves to find out how it can be retrieved and the software systems that can use it. Something integrated with the accounting system/bank reconciliation would be nice. If it's a hard process, then that's likely the machine to avoid.
The second question, in fact should probably be the first, is to decide exactly what kind of data is to be collected: bar-code data, department codes, and the number of different sales taxes applicable to the site. These kind of questions will dictate the complexity of the machine to be purchased. All cash registers will do the normal daily control functions, running and daily totals. What you're looking for a machine that will deliver higher-level data to support the management of the business, so you need to start with those management objectives, then see how the extraction process fits into the accounting system, and only then decide on a machine to support those systems.
No, I believe the new Gatekeepers will be the ISP's who will throttle and promote various websites in an internet version of Payola. Net Neutrality will be neutral in name only.
Thanks. I do some of that, but the text file idea is great. I'll try setting up the VM as well.
So, does deleting my cookies (please, no food jokes) on a regular basis, thwart their intentions, or are they sending home more traceable stuff, like the MAC address?
So is the blue screen of death on my end, or on the scanner's end?
Asking Microsoft to specify a program's network access would interfere with their ridiculous desire to staple .NET onto everything. I swear Solitaire will be next....
Don't count out the "strikes" you mentioned. The client could very well submit a complaint to the appropriate State Bar Association (the judge could, but I doubt it), who will then begin an investigation. It could take a long time, but various State Bar Associations don't treat this conduct lightly. To me, this conduct is approaching Fraud upon the Court and could mean significant trouble for those lawyers.
Now, where's my violin?
Had something similar when I was working for a heavy construction company. Used to take out the old hard drives and take them down to the welding shop. They always enjoyed torching a hole through the spindle and liquefying everything inside the case...
Oh. Well, 'ancient' describes me too.
This test might even be buildable from data within a DNA sample. Then, you're not creating just an oak tree, but THAT particular oak tree out back....
"Never let the facts interfere with a good story." - Dan Rather
Back in "those days", my dad used to talk people engaging about guerrilla warfare against Ma Bell by underpaying their phone bills by $0.01 because all those people and all those bytes stored on their accounts receivable tapes was a real burden. Cheap memory takes all the fun out of it.
Someone please mod this man up! He understands government contracting.
Problem is, a lot of what's supposed to be consumed as more-or-less objective news these days is actually generated by astro-turf organizations looking to push their particular agenda. One of the clues to identifying such nonsense is the invitation to *imagine* potentially catastrophic consequences, a.k.a. think-of-the-children syndrome.
It's one thing to alert the public to a uranium spill and the potential for contamination. But when the alarm was raised that the liquid could have gone, quite literally, nuclear, that's when my BS alarms went off and I questioned the source and motive of the story.
I'm sorry, but I missed something. If it's in the container, it's safe, but if it's loose on the floor, it's liable to start a chain reaction? That just doesn't sound right. I smell an ulterior motive in this story.
I've always known the end-goal for all media companies is pay-per-play, every single time.