Doesn't a bank have a legitimate need to know if they're dealing with someone on a landline, a mobile phone or a VOIP phone when deciding as part of an online transaction if they're extending that person a line of credit?
I'm not a shill. Our business does not depend on a phone reputation service but it does incorporate many different services including ip reputation services & device reputation services. These are essential for stopping fraud for the people who's credit cards are stolen and used at our site. Perhaps your naive for not realizing what's going on around you. The article describes the pervasiveness of the profiling that's been going with major brands.
As someone who works at a business who could not operate without this type of information I understand it's necessity. It's sad but it's necessary in today's world. Just like IP reputation, device, address reputation and many other things, a vendor, a provider, or person on the other end of the world can only know so much given a certain piece of information. It's incredibly valuable to know if someone is calling from a VOIP number when you're running a high risk business. Some times for some transactions you need to know if someone is coming in via a very well covered proxy. This information does not always come cheap and businesses have to evaluate which pieces they want and need to incorporate into their model. I would not be worried about it happening on a grand wholesale scale. The whole model is to hit people transactionally as the reputation evolves and to charge them each time.
I've had a similar situation except for both me and my wife did like to play games before kids arrived. We wanted to limit our kids exposure before 2 to too much screen time and wound up taking a huge break from video games for almost 7 years. Since Christmas we have all been having a total blast playing Lego Lord of the Rings. It's a great 2 player puzzle game, tame enough for kids to watch and play. My daughter is amazed to see my wife and I working so well at something together and she's gone from being scared of Gollum to really wanting to play him most of the time. We tried several games before this and had a hard time ever getting into anything. We did enjoy playing the portal series together. I recommend a good co-operative puzzle game if that type interests you and her. Working together and trying to figure something out is a great way to get anyone engaged.
This is a great letter recognition, word recognition and reading app for that age group that has a great variety of mini games that handle progression, fight boredom. I wish it had math because I think the quality is great.
While I'm happy to see this as an end user - they did have good applications as well. They were a great mechanism for tracking fraudsters across cookie wipes... The more savvy ones knew better but for those who didn't it saved us a lot of losses...
Every time I use google for directions I'm left disappointed. I love the maps, hate the directions. I use google for virtually everything I can but if I'm trying to drive someplace I'm unfamiliar with I use mapquest. Google maps is reminiscent of the early directions we got on all of the map sites. Sometimes roads that cross do not intersect, sometimes there are other problems. I wish I could say googles directions were top notch but they're just not. I retry every 6 months only to be disappointed again.
Granted this may have no relevance on the mathmatical problem at hand...
This is why the way MySQL has been developed is so awesome. Transactions are now available and for the people that need them they can create their tables using one of the table types that support them. For the rest of us that are working on applications that don't require them - we don't feel the performance hit. Monty is a speed NUT - he strives to keep MySQL thin and fast and will continue to do so while adding good features that people need.
This is 10000s of times better than the Oracle approach that crams features into the product and punishes everyone who uses it with the slowness.
I attended Nusphere's MySQL training last november and at that point the relationship between the companies seemed quite good. According to Nusphere Monty had been there shortly before looking at the Nusphere-MySQL distribution. During the actual training our instructor (who was from Polycon) was sending questions he couldn't answer directly to Monty each night and getting a response for us the following day.... It seems odd that things have degraded this far but he mysql.org site is pretty "confusing" in how it's not branded as what it is.
X-keys from Pi Engineering http://www.xkeys.com does a hell of a lot more than this thing. The pro version costs $150 and has 58 programmable keys. There are 2 layers to the device with one key programmed as a "Shift" you can effectively program 107 different macros. Very useful to have one layer for your games and another with useful bits of code programmed like subroutine headers and stuff. I've been able to record hundreds of keystrokes and assign them to a single key. I'm not sure what the limit is. Also supports repeating key strokes and pauses. No super-sleek ergonmic design but it also works on any OS and you can label and program the keys really easily...
I would ask them which of the other 50 registrants of domain names with "Purdue" in the name they're hassling. There are obviously a few below that are probably running much more commerical sites than yours. As for legal advice, I suggest you check with the registrants of: Purdue-law.com (They specialize in patent law!) and Purduelaw.com (no site up). They might have some advice!
I find it pretty amusing that the FOF was available in PDF, HTML and WP6 format. Who's the govt. kidding? If what they're saying is true nobody is using WP6! (well not exaclty but you get my point). Odd that it wasn't available in.doc fomrat....
Decollate snails are a predatory snail used by farmers in some parts of the US to fight snail populations. The problem is that the recommended 'dosage' is 500 snails per acre per year. I'm not sure about their current cost but I imagine a Roboslug would become pretty cost effective. Plus the Decollate's only eat the young snails (smaller than.5 in). The theory behind it is that after several generations of baby snails getting gobbled they'll eventually die out.
There's a big difference between buying a "crap plot of land" and registering a domain name that's another companie's registered trademark. Your analogy would be more accurate if you said: "In the 'real' world, I have every right to buy a piece of land on a street corner, construct a building that looked identical to all the McDonalds all over the world and put a big Mcdonalds sign on the front of it. I should be able to sell that plot of land and store for as much as I can get not what I originally paid" The problem is that it's not legal.
If you're really talking about buying some "crap plot of land" you're talking about a name that isn't already someone's registered trademark. If my understanding is correct and you register a name before it's a registered trademark you are entitled to keep the name...
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Doesn't a bank have a legitimate need to know if they're dealing with someone on a landline, a mobile phone or a VOIP phone when deciding as part of an online transaction if they're extending that person a line of credit?
I'm not a shill. Our business does not depend on a phone reputation service but it does incorporate many different services including ip reputation services & device reputation services. These are essential for stopping fraud for the people who's credit cards are stolen and used at our site. Perhaps your naive for not realizing what's going on around you. The article describes the pervasiveness of the profiling that's been going with major brands.
How is this different than services like:
maxmind - ip reputation
iovation - device reputation / fingerprinting
threatmetrix - device fingerprinting
and many many other services that profile us in many other dozens of ways address etc....
As someone who works at a business who could not operate without this type of information I understand it's necessity. It's sad but it's necessary in today's world. Just like IP reputation, device, address reputation and many other things, a vendor, a provider, or person on the other end of the world can only know so much given a certain piece of information. It's incredibly valuable to know if someone is calling from a VOIP number when you're running a high risk business. Some times for some transactions you need to know if someone is coming in via a very well covered proxy. This information does not always come cheap and businesses have to evaluate which pieces they want and need to incorporate into their model. I would not be worried about it happening on a grand wholesale scale. The whole model is to hit people transactionally as the reputation evolves and to charge them each time.
I've had a similar situation except for both me and my wife did like to play games before kids arrived. We wanted to limit our kids exposure before 2 to too much screen time and wound up taking a huge break from video games for almost 7 years. Since Christmas we have all been having a total blast playing Lego Lord of the Rings. It's a great 2 player puzzle game, tame enough for kids to watch and play. My daughter is amazed to see my wife and I working so well at something together and she's gone from being scared of Gollum to really wanting to play him most of the time. We tried several games before this and had a hard time ever getting into anything. We did enjoy playing the portal series together. I recommend a good co-operative puzzle game if that type interests you and her. Working together and trying to figure something out is a great way to get anyone engaged.
This is a great letter recognition, word recognition and reading app for that age group that has a great variety of mini games that handle progression, fight boredom. I wish it had math because I think the quality is great.
Smarty Pants School
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smarty-pants-school/id403824279?mt=8
While I'm happy to see this as an end user - they did have good applications as well. They were a great mechanism for tracking fraudsters across cookie wipes... The more savvy ones knew better but for those who didn't it saved us a lot of losses...
Every time I use google for directions I'm left disappointed. I love the maps, hate the directions. I use google for virtually everything I can but if I'm trying to drive someplace I'm unfamiliar with I use mapquest. Google maps is reminiscent of the early directions we got on all of the map sites. Sometimes roads that cross do not intersect, sometimes there are other problems. I wish I could say googles directions were top notch but they're just not. I retry every 6 months only to be disappointed again.
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Granted this may have no relevance on the mathmatical problem at hand
Kings Quest 3 taught me to have to type fast! "Show the mirror to medusa "
Subject says it all. Those games were awesome. Everything modern pales in comparison cause the games virtually all lack a nice text interpreter.
This is why the way MySQL has been developed is so awesome. Transactions are now available and for the people that need them they can create their tables using one of the table types that support them. For the rest of us that are working on applications that don't require them - we don't feel the performance hit. Monty is a speed NUT - he strives to keep MySQL thin and fast and will continue to do so while adding good features that people need.
This is 10000s of times better than the Oracle approach that crams features into the product and punishes everyone who uses it with the slowness.
-Chris
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I attended Nusphere's MySQL training last november and at that point the relationship between the companies seemed quite good. According to Nusphere Monty had been there shortly before looking at the Nusphere-MySQL distribution. During the actual training our instructor (who was from Polycon) was sending questions he couldn't answer directly to Monty each night and getting a response for us the following day.... It seems odd that things have degraded this far but he mysql.org site is pretty "confusing" in how it's not branded as what it is.
X-keys from Pi Engineering http://www.xkeys.com does a hell of a lot more than this thing. The pro version costs $150 and has 58 programmable keys. There are 2 layers to the device with one key programmed as a "Shift" you can effectively program 107 different macros. Very useful to have one layer for your games and another with useful bits of code programmed like subroutine headers and stuff. I've been able to record hundreds of keystrokes and assign them to a single key. I'm not sure what the limit is. Also supports repeating key strokes and pauses. No super-sleek ergonmic design but it also works on any OS and you can label and program the keys really easily...
I would ask them which of the other 50 registrants of domain names with "Purdue" in the name they're hassling. There are obviously a few below that are probably running much more commerical sites than yours. As for legal advice, I suggest you check with the registrants of: Purdue-law.com (They specialize in patent law!) and Purduelaw.com (no site up). They might have some advice!
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I find it pretty amusing that the FOF was available in PDF, HTML and WP6 format. Who's the govt. kidding? If what they're saying is true nobody is using WP6! (well not exaclty but you get my point). Odd that it wasn't available in .doc fomrat....
Decollate snails are a predatory snail used by farmers in some parts of the US to fight snail populations. The problem is that the recommended 'dosage' is 500 snails per acre per year. I'm not sure about their current cost but I imagine a Roboslug would become pretty cost effective. Plus the Decollate's only eat the young snails (smaller than .5 in). The theory behind it is that after several generations of baby snails getting gobbled they'll eventually die out.
There's a big difference between buying a "crap plot of land" and registering a domain name that's another companie's registered trademark. Your analogy would be more accurate if you said: "In the 'real' world, I have every right to buy a piece of land on a street corner, construct a building that looked identical to all the McDonalds all over the world and put a big Mcdonalds sign on the front of it. I should be able to sell that plot of land and store for as much as I can get not what I originally paid" The problem is that it's not legal.
If you're really talking about buying some "crap plot of land" you're talking about a name that isn't already someone's registered trademark. If my understanding is correct and you register a name before it's a registered trademark you are entitled to keep the name...