And when the mexicans run across the boarder and have babies in the closest ER, they pay taxes on almost everything they buy, except basic food, on the way there. If our tax was income based, the state wouldn't get a penny out of them.
I understand the arguments against a sales tax, but it sure is fair in that almost everyone pays them, not just those in the middle, because with an income tax, the rich and the poor get out of paying them.
About the only way I know people get out of sales tax is to buy only food (not realistic), order things from out of state (legit, but you can't order everything), or have some type of home/small business and lie about things you are buying to "resale" (and that does happen, but not on a large scale).
If this hack lets unapproved apps run, then what's going to keep the cell towers from being shut down on a massive scale? Doesn't this make Apple guilty of harming national security?
Back in 1938, a massive alien invasion took place in Grover's Mills, New Jersey -- during Orson Welles' famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast about Martians. Maybe it wasn't a hoax? Applications were discovered for social security cards from a list of men with no backgrounds -- all named Cox:
I think passwords should spin, and any right characters you try should make that digit stop spinning, to let you know that character was right. That would put things more in line with the movies and make hacking a lot more fun. .
Exactly. And by selling at cost, if you find some use for it that maybe wasn't intended, nobody can lay a guilt trip on you about costing Amazon money because they subsidize its cost.
I've worked in businesses were equipment was basically sold at cost and where equipment was subsidized. At cost works much better, in my opinion. Subsidizing sucks when someone pays 20.00 for a 200.00 device, drops it in a bucket of water, and then explodes when they are expected to pay 200.00 for something they just paid 20.00
If everyone had solar and wind power, it would decentralize a lot of the power grid. If something broke, it wouldn't automatically be the power company that came out to fix it. I think in the long run, that would be better for everyone.
The problem with nuclear, is it is your power company on steroids. Huge and complex. Unions are involved. The man hours to build are unreal, and in the end, it is even more consolidated in scope than coal powered plants.
I knew an electrician that worked on a nuclear power plant for years. After many problems, the contract was taken over by another company and the first thing they did was rip out everything that had been completed over the years and everything was restarted from scratch.
Of course, that all gets passed along to us...even the union guys he told me about who would come in and hide all day because they didn't have anything to do at the time.
Everybody's had to suck it up some these days. Big massive nuclear power plants are NOT the way to go in my opinion. I'm tired of "sucking it up" so guys making 35.00 an hour can find a crawl space to sleep in all day.
What really stinks, especially in rural areas, is that you have to buy your back-end bandwidth from a person you are competing against.
They get their money either way, charging a fortune for a 1.5 Mb T1 line, again, especially in rural areas.
So they make a killing off of a bunch of bonded T1 lines or a partial DS3, and then you have to compete with them against their own offerings (i.e. 19.99 and 29.99 a month DSL).
So you get the headache of customer support and make a little money, and the phone company does good either way. Your niche market in a rural area is areas not serviced by the phone company, which means when the phone company does go into a new area, you lose your customers in that area because you can hardly compete with the people who own the infrastructure.
Again, I know there are more options in larger cities, but there is a reason a business likes to be a monopoly.
And wait until boxee, netflix, tivio, etc., finally have that killer set-top box and everyone wants one.
There was just an article a week or so ago that everyone using bandwidth at the same time didn't cost comcast a dime more than if nobody was using it.
But there are parts of the Backbone that are oversold, and it would be physically impossible for every customer to use 100% of the bandwidth at one time and get the speed they were advertised.
I know that may not be true for some large ISPs, but if it is a smaller ISP, they oversell bandwidth. And they HAVE to in order to survive and make a profit. You could not sell 3 meg down for 29.95 a month and built out an infrastructure that would deliver 3 meg to every customer at the same time...or maybe you could, but it would take a hell of a long time to pay it off. Might be different in socialized countries, but that is the reality here.
I could not possibly see myself going back to a brick and mortar institution for an advanced degree.
Better hope where you do want to go is in state.
I recently spent some time looking for online classes. Courses for real credit are far and few between, unless you want to spend big bucks.
I actually found a few courses I was interested in, but if the college is out of state, you are faced with out of state tuition. This can make the price hundreds of dollars more expensive per credit hour.
With the Internet, this is an artificial barrier, like DVD regions.
For hardware, like a Tivo or a model railroad interface, if you don't want people to see the code, it seems that using code from BSD-style licensed code would be the best thing to use.
If you don't care if people see the code, then use code from a GPL project and release your code as per the license.
Anyone smart enough to build a model railroad interface should be smart enough to know the difference between the two licenses.
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . . . We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted [Frederick Mann: Obfuscation of meaning is a key element of the con games bureaucrats and politicians play.] - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." --Ayn Rand
And not only is there a fixed amount of bandwidth, but they oversell this bandwidth by a large margin. To build out a system where each and every person could utilize 100% of their bandwidth at one time would cost a fortune...and it wouldn't be sold for 29.95 a month.
Go and look at some prices for services with guaranteed bandwidth. Suddenly, the tiered prices don't look so bad.
As someone who worked at an ISP, I do feel for them. I quit my job because I could see the coming bandwidth crunch where I worked and I knew that no matter how we tried to play it, we would piss people off.
Thanks to fake bailout article, MS stock drops slightly, but enough to make the people who knew about the upcoming article a nice chunk of change by shorting it.
I wonder how much Microsoft's Malicious Software reporting tool would be to help in targeting specific systems?
Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the 450 million computer users who have installed the Malicious Software Removal tool that ships with Windows.
Microsoft had not previously talked about its botnet tool, but it turns out that it was used by police in Canada to make a high-profile bust earlier this year.
Someone care to expand on the above??? I've googled some but came up with nothing so far.
Infection happens two ways. In one method, a userâ(TM)s clicking on a document attached to an e-mail message lets the system covertly install software deep in the target operating system. Alternatively, a user clicks on a Web link in an e-mail message and is taken directly to a âoepoisonedâ Web site.
Unless I missed it, I don't see Windows mentioned...but I'm going to go out on a limb here and figure the targeted OS is Windows.
What Red Hat ran into is not being profitable in a bad economy, but one of the dark sides of being a publicly traded company.
When Canonical does start to turn a profit, it doesn't have to worry about this issue because it is privately held.
Going public to me seems to be a double-edged sword. It is a smoke and mirror way to raise a lot of capital, but it also sets you up to have others come in and try and tell you what to do...and it could be someone that you don't really want telling you what to do (example: eBay buying shares in Craigslist).
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from MarketWatch: "A one-megaton nuclear bomb detonated 250 miles over Kansas could cripple many modern electronic devices and systems in the continental US and take out the power grid for a long time.... A solar storm similar to the one that occurred in 1859, which shorted out telegraph wires in the United States and Europe, could wreak havoc on electrical systems. Each of the above scenarios can create a powerful electromagnetic pulse that overloads electronic devices and systems. IAN staff and Frostburg State University physics and engineering professor Hilkat Soysal are teaming — through a $165,000 project recently approved by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program — to create renewable energy-powered, electromagnetic pulse (EMP)-protected microgrids that could provide electricity for critical infrastructure facilities in the event of a disaster."
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And when the mexicans run across the boarder and have babies in the closest ER, they pay taxes on almost everything they buy, except basic food, on the way there. If our tax was income based, the state wouldn't get a penny out of them.
I understand the arguments against a sales tax, but it sure is fair in that almost everyone pays them, not just those in the middle, because with an income tax, the rich and the poor get out of paying them.
About the only way I know people get out of sales tax is to buy only food (not realistic), order things from out of state (legit, but you can't order everything), or have some type of home/small business and lie about things you are buying to "resale" (and that does happen, but not on a large scale).
transporter_ii
If this hack lets unapproved apps run, then what's going to keep the cell towers from being shut down on a massive scale? Doesn't this make Apple guilty of harming national security?
Back in 1938, a massive alien invasion took place in Grover's Mills, New Jersey -- during Orson Welles' famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast about Martians. Maybe it wasn't a hoax? Applications were discovered for social security cards from a list of men with no backgrounds -- all named Cox:
Alan Cox
John Big Cox
Dewey Cox
Dixon Cox
Ima Cox
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I think passwords should spin, and any right characters you try should make that digit stop spinning, to let you know that character was right. That would put things more in line with the movies and make hacking a lot more fun.
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After they saw how they lost sleeper cell after sleeper cell here in the US:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/after_5_years_in_u_s_terrorist
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Exactly. And by selling at cost, if you find some use for it that maybe wasn't intended, nobody can lay a guilt trip on you about costing Amazon money because they subsidize its cost.
I've worked in businesses were equipment was basically sold at cost and where equipment was subsidized. At cost works much better, in my opinion. Subsidizing sucks when someone pays 20.00 for a 200.00 device, drops it in a bucket of water, and then explodes when they are expected to pay 200.00 for something they just paid 20.00
Well, at least I don't have the hiccups any more.
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If everyone had solar and wind power, it would decentralize a lot of the power grid. If something broke, it wouldn't automatically be the power company that came out to fix it. I think in the long run, that would be better for everyone.
The problem with nuclear, is it is your power company on steroids. Huge and complex. Unions are involved. The man hours to build are unreal, and in the end, it is even more consolidated in scope than coal powered plants.
I knew an electrician that worked on a nuclear power plant for years. After many problems, the contract was taken over by another company and the first thing they did was rip out everything that had been completed over the years and everything was restarted from scratch.
Of course, that all gets passed along to us...even the union guys he told me about who would come in and hide all day because they didn't have anything to do at the time.
Everybody's had to suck it up some these days. Big massive nuclear power plants are NOT the way to go in my opinion. I'm tired of "sucking it up" so guys making 35.00 an hour can find a crawl space to sleep in all day.
What really stinks, especially in rural areas, is that you have to buy your back-end bandwidth from a person you are competing against.
They get their money either way, charging a fortune for a 1.5 Mb T1 line, again, especially in rural areas.
So they make a killing off of a bunch of bonded T1 lines or a partial DS3, and then you have to compete with them against their own offerings (i.e. 19.99 and 29.99 a month DSL).
So you get the headache of customer support and make a little money, and the phone company does good either way. Your niche market in a rural area is areas not serviced by the phone company, which means when the phone company does go into a new area, you lose your customers in that area because you can hardly compete with the people who own the infrastructure.
Again, I know there are more options in larger cities, but there is a reason a business likes to be a monopoly.
Transporter_ii
Every house on every block doing it.
And wait until boxee, netflix, tivio, etc., finally have that killer set-top box and everyone wants one.
There was just an article a week or so ago that everyone using bandwidth at the same time didn't cost comcast a dime more than if nobody was using it.
But there are parts of the Backbone that are oversold, and it would be physically impossible for every customer to use 100% of the bandwidth at one time and get the speed they were advertised.
I know that may not be true for some large ISPs, but if it is a smaller ISP, they oversell bandwidth. And they HAVE to in order to survive and make a profit. You could not sell 3 meg down for 29.95 a month and built out an infrastructure that would deliver 3 meg to every customer at the same time...or maybe you could, but it would take a hell of a long time to pay it off. Might be different in socialized countries, but that is the reality here.
transporter_ii
Why would a college in Colorado want to limit itself to people in Colorado, when online courses can be taken from anywhere?
50.00 a credit hour in state, or 243.00 out of state?
You are correct, but darned if I don't get the feeling I'm dealing with the same people who run the RIAA or thought up DVD region codes.
I could not possibly see myself going back to a brick and mortar institution for an advanced degree.
Better hope where you do want to go is in state.
I recently spent some time looking for online classes. Courses for real credit are far and few between, unless you want to spend big bucks.
I actually found a few courses I was interested in, but if the college is out of state, you are faced with out of state tuition. This can make the price hundreds of dollars more expensive per credit hour.
With the Internet, this is an artificial barrier, like DVD regions.
That will come in handy for something, someday. All 20 of them just sitting there, waiting to pounce on some poor Win IIS web server.
For hardware, like a Tivo or a model railroad interface, if you don't want people to see the code, it seems that using code from BSD-style licensed code would be the best thing to use.
If you don't care if people see the code, then use code from a GPL project and release your code as per the license.
Anyone smart enough to build a model railroad interface should be smart enough to know the difference between the two licenses.
is somebody better run this by the HAM radio operators.
They say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but that saying came into being before HAMs were on the scene.
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . . . We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted [Frederick Mann: Obfuscation of meaning is a key element of the con games bureaucrats and politicians play.] - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." --Ayn Rand
And not only is there a fixed amount of bandwidth, but they oversell this bandwidth by a large margin. To build out a system where each and every person could utilize 100% of their bandwidth at one time would cost a fortune...and it wouldn't be sold for 29.95 a month.
Go and look at some prices for services with guaranteed bandwidth. Suddenly, the tiered prices don't look so bad.
As someone who worked at an ISP, I do feel for them. I quit my job because I could see the coming bandwidth crunch where I worked and I knew that no matter how we tried to play it, we would piss people off.
transporter_ii
I'm from Ministry of Fairness, Niceness, and Free Ponies at Taxpayer Expense, and would like to have a meeting with you.
We will be in touch...
You can snort mercury?
Yeah, but how long should you stay gone? A week? A month?
Transporter_ii
Thanks to fake bailout article, MS stock drops slightly, but enough to make the people who knew about the upcoming article a nice chunk of change by shorting it.
I wonder how much Microsoft's Malicious Software reporting tool would be to help in targeting specific systems?
See: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/29/Microsoft-botnet-hunting-tool-helps-bust-hackers_1.html
Someone care to expand on the above??? I've googled some but came up with nothing so far.
Unless I missed it, I don't see Windows mentioned...but I'm going to go out on a limb here and figure the targeted OS is Windows.
Transporter_ii
What Red Hat ran into is not being profitable in a bad economy, but one of the dark sides of being a publicly traded company.
When Canonical does start to turn a profit, it doesn't have to worry about this issue because it is privately held.
Going public to me seems to be a double-edged sword. It is a smoke and mirror way to raise a lot of capital, but it also sets you up to have others come in and try and tell you what to do...and it could be someone that you don't really want telling you what to do (example: eBay buying shares in Craigslist).
Transporter_ii
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/27/1256231&art_pos=3
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from MarketWatch: ... A solar storm similar to the one that occurred in 1859, which shorted out telegraph wires in the United States and Europe, could wreak havoc on electrical systems. Each of the above scenarios can create a powerful electromagnetic pulse that overloads electronic devices and systems.
"A one-megaton nuclear bomb detonated 250 miles over Kansas could cripple many modern electronic devices and systems in the continental US and take out the power grid for a long time.
IAN staff and Frostburg State University physics and engineering professor Hilkat Soysal are teaming — through a $165,000 project recently approved by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program — to create renewable energy-powered, electromagnetic pulse (EMP)-protected microgrids that could provide electricity for critical infrastructure facilities in the event of a disaster."
Also available are an EMP threat assessment (PDF) written for the US Congress and an estimate of economic impact (PDF).