An IP address will identify a connection, that someone is responsible for.
There is plenty of cases of Person A committing a crime or getting into an accident, using something from Person B, and Person B getting into trouble as a result.
So you're saying if I loan my car to a friend and he accidentally hits and kills someone with it, then I'm being negligent and an accessory to their death ?
My dad worked for a company that payed 10% above the market for every position. Executives, IT, engineers, clerical, janitors, etc... EVERYONE. What this did was improve quality, drastically reduced turn over, and every job opening got thousands of applicants, you pick the best and then things tend to go smoothly.
People care more, work harder and longer hours when they know they are being paid more than they can get elsewhere. It's really just that simple.
You can only interpolate and run global models so much. Eventually you have to go to smaller and smaller regions. Then at a certain point you just have crappy data, which means someone needs to collect it. Other people need to correct all the above. That usually means lots of people, and lots of time. Something Google has had a lot of for a long time.
However Apple does have a ton of cash. They could throw a LOT of money at it and make a big difference in a few years. It would be like organizing a large army however.
For perspective on that "large army". Despite being twice the size of Google (based on market capitalization) Apple has ~ 13,000 non-retail employees, TOTAL, and Google has ~7,100 people working on Google Maps.
What about the Wii ?
I get that you are primarily a PC / 360 gamer, but there are a number of Wii games that can be played 1 handed for a short term gaming fix...
Light gun games,
Dancing games
Sports ( Madden / Tennis / Golf ) etc...
I'm still not of the belief this is something that needs to be "cured".
It isn't a cancer; my son is highly functional and gifted in certain aspects. People just need to learn to accept "different".
I't's cheaper, better quality, and on demand.
If I want to watch a show I can pay for a Netflix subscription or Amazon VOD and have immediate access in HD for a small fraction of what cable costs to provide me with shows I may or may not want when I may or may not want to watch them. Sure you could rent a DVR from your provider, but that costs as much or more than netflix, so meh...
Cable is for the older generation.
The problem with making comic book stories on television is that you don't have the budget. Special effects cost money, and any truly 'super' hero is going to need special effects to wow the audience.
Without the multi-million dollar budget you get in movies, there are few superhero stories you can make well. Maybe something with minor SFX like Arrow (the Green Arrow TV show coming out in the fall), but nothing with real powers and real sensawunder. At best you'll just make lame soap operas like Smallville that occasionally hint at super powers being used in the background.
It depends on your focus. The Entire Bendis Daredevil run would make for a great TV show as it focuses primarily on Matt Murdock and Daredevil was practically a "guest star" in his own book.
It's not necessarily about "openness" for everybody. Some of us are just tired of Microsoft and want to see somebody else win for a while. Personally I fall into that camp so I'm rooting for the inevitable amalgamation of ChromeOS and Android to get some traction.
I never understood the point of ChromeOS. Considering google is slapping Android on the devices that require a network connection to be useful (cell phones and TV) why bother with ChromeOS ? Get Chrome (proper) running on Android and call it a day.
Did you ever actually look for the Linux laptops on Dell's web site? I did, and it wasn't like they plastered them on the home page. It's not like it was even a choice when you were configuring your system. You had to go to a special sub-site with few or no links from other pages. You really had to know where it was to get to it.
So you're saying they want to get users ready for the "out of the box linux experience".
I love the publisher packs. They have a Bethesda pack right now with the Elder Scrolls games plus Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, plus all the DLC, for $50.
The problem is I might already have 3/4 of the titles because of the pack I bought last year. In this case I own the Fallout titles. It's still a good deal, but not as good as it would be for someone who didn't have a big library already.
I suppose it depends on if they give you giftable copies if you buy a new pack. Might be worth it then.
yup, and this would be apparent to ANYONE who actually walked into one of those rooms rather than reading stuff off a press-release. The rooms aren't set up for that kind of presentation, and nobody who goes there expects it to be.
Except that the last Harry Potter book was over 600 pages (over 700 pages in the US version, not sure what was added) and the story line actually justified being split into two movies.
As much as I enjoyed the last Harry Potter Book / Movie(s) I disagree that it couldn't of been told in 1 movie less than 3 hours long. If any of the books deserved the 2 part (or 4 hour) treatment it was Book 4.
Have to agree with that. I shunned steam for eons. Downside is have to be on line,
No it doesn't. At least not after you buy and download your game. I have steam on my laptop, and though I usually have it connected to the internet if I'm on a plane:
1) I launch the game (or steam).
2) It tries to connect, fails and asks if I want to go into offline mode.
3) choose offline, and play.
To date I haven't had a single issue with trying to play a game without an internet connection.
I play PC games through steam, and I'm patient. Haven't paid more than $30 for a game in years, and I'm not about to start.
Not sure if I'm more patient or cheap, but I haven't paid more than $10 for a single PC game in years thanks to steam sales. Then again Last year during Quake-Con they had a "iD and Bethesta Pack" which had 34 games (all the quakes, dooms, elder scrolls, fallout 3, new vegas) for $70 and that's still keeping me busy.
This specific part is about fixing the pre-existing loophole that someone who decides not to pay for insurance but piggy backs on the healthcare system by using the ER (which is more expensive than regular visits and pushes the burden on the rest of us through higher medical and insurance costs). As costs got higher, more and more people made this decision (or it was made for them). This isn't the primary reason for health care costs going up, but it's contributing to it.
At some point in time, this gap was going to need to be filled in some way (otherwise you and I will continue to pay for their insurance). I would have preferred a carrot rather than a stick (or a stick disguised as a carrot), but I personally can't think of a better solution. Can you?
Kinda curious about something. How does imposing fines on non-participants actually help the healthcare model ?
If a person doesn't have insurance and doesn't get insurance they get a fine they have to pay now... yet they are still uninsured and have fewer resources to buy insurance after paying the fine. This is also a federal fine not a bill from a private company that can go to collections or written off, this is a tax where if you don't pay they can put a lien on your house or throw you in jail.
So assuming I have no insurance, and I can't afford it or for whatever reason don't get insurance. Any money I might of been saving will go to that fine (because hey, I like my house and jail not so much) and I still have to hit the ER and have someone else subsidize that cost.
"That's what the fine is for!" you might say, but that tax money doesn't go to the private insurer or hospitol, it goes to the government so the private hospital has to eat the cost anyway.
So unless I'm missing the news stories that describes how:
1) these uninsured people are automatically put into an insurance pool and they legitimately have issurance (and need to opt out vs opt in) and it's paid from the revenues of this tax OR
2) there's a Trust fund the government set up where this tax money is held seperate and private hospitals can file claims for re-imbursement for their unpaid emergency visits.
Then I fail to see how that fine does anything but punish those who are already struggling. If anyone can provide links for 1 or 2 I'd appreciate it.
I've wondered the same thing as I've seen ads that pretty much every major school district in my area are touting iPads for every student next year. I love new shiny tech, but I feel like 'get of my lawn' curmudgeon being skeptical on the benefits of outfitting every kid with a free-to-use tablet. It's especially frustrating when in the same article about the local district offering iPads to everyone (via a technology-specific millage) that same district is still 500k in the hole after cutting $1 million by way of faculty layoffs.
I haven't looked, but is there research showing that giving every student an iPad improves something?
Though I personally don't feel that a classroom full of iPads is as valuable as paying full time teachers, I can understand the budgetary logic in it. "Buying all this hardware, software, adapters... etc..." costs considerably less than paying for a teacher for that timeframe. If you have the money you can buy it once and ride it out a few years with minimal extra costs... wages, don't work that way.
They (AT&T, Xerox, IBM, and multinational companies of similar stature at the time) thought that the global information infrastructure would be centralized, monolithic and closed. Businesses and consumers would have to choose a provider that would provide the whole enchilada.
Not surprising. They figured "the internet" would be run like cable TV... hell Cable TV providers are still trying to make that happen.
...one way or the other. People who want the sleekest looking tablet or phone will go for the iPhone or iPad, and people who want the average market 'just gets the job done' will get Androids.
If they want "Shinny" then yeah, they might get the iPhone, but as for "just get the job done"... that is the very definition of iOS. It doesn't integrate well with anything but iTunes and I was shocked to see how far behind it was compared to Android (gingerbread) in terms of functionality and usability. I went from a droid to an iphone 4s back to a droid after almost 2 weeks of that shit. I was glad I wasn't stuck with it. Fortunately in iOS 6 apple announced some features that have been present in android for over a year "are coming" but they still are far behind the curve because they don't want to give up that control.
Of course not. However, it's not my fault because my boss bought a shit cell phone that can't sink up with whatever before talking to me about it. By the very same (lack of) logic it is going to be my fault when the "cloud" explodes and goes down for three days. Many people are just not knowledgeable enough to understand where one sphere of influence begins and another ends. "
I hear that. I've had several executives ask me if I could reset their AOL password.:-/
What is the value of a random persons stolen linkedin account... I'm trying to figure out how its not zero. I have a pretty devious mind but I can't think of any way to make money off this with a reasonable chance of success.
I'm trying to figure out the value of an active LinkedIn account. Seriously, does anyone know of anybody who got hired thanks to linkedin ?
No, it's not. Believe me, I know, I've got both a PS3 and a Wii hooked on a HD TV. I can go back and forth between those consoles and feel no pain. Yes, games on the PS3 look much better, but I don't get to play less on the Wii because of that. Then again, I'm one of those old-schoolers that played on the Atari 2600 and NES, so I'm not in it for the looks, I'm in it for the fun. Go figure.
Same. I have all 3 systems and a 40" LCD. If you have the component cables and have it set to 480p it's fine.
...is why is it all so difficult to come up with some scheme to secure internet accessible resources. Corporate policy for me require password changes every 90 days and disallows any of the last eight passwords, and the use of letters and numbers. Effectively, I'm forced to write it down,
Why would you have to write it down ? Those requirements are trivial.
Our passwords change every 30 days, must be 8+ characters long, use 3 of the 4 character types ( UPPER, lower case, Numbers and special characters) you can't use the last 24 and they have a minimum password age of 1 day (so you can't cycle through them and go back to the old one) and you know what? It'sT SIMPLE to come up with a password that fits those requirements and remember them, you just need a pneumonic device.
Stuff like: "Summer2012" , "It'sFriday" , "FreeFood!" "Grads2012" , "WTFjusthappened?" or "FuckThisShit!" all fit complexity requirements and are pretty simple to remember.
or 6.25e14, that's 625 trillion. At a million cracking attemps per second,
that gives 19.8 years for an exhaustive search.
You are right in principle, but your cracking speed is way off - we are not talking millions of attempts per second but instead billions.
Entirely academic. What IT Admin with a brain allows infinite failed attempts on an account ? Even if you could hit the server with BILLIONS of attempts in a second, where is the value when my system will lock that account (and requires a human to manually unlock it) after 5 failed attempts ?
Set login restrictions so a student can only log into specific machines. If that's too much of a hassle (logistically not technically) there are tools to restrict the number of concurrent log ons they are allowed (at least in Active Directory) and you can set that to 1. It also helps if your apps use integrated authentication because if they share their password and someone else logs in as them, not only can that new person not do their work, the person who gave up their password can't log in and do their own work.
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An IP address will identify a connection, that someone is responsible for.
There is plenty of cases of Person A committing a crime or getting into an accident, using something from Person B, and Person B getting into trouble as a result.
So you're saying if I loan my car to a friend and he accidentally hits and kills someone with it, then I'm being negligent and an accessory to their death ?
People care more, work harder and longer hours when they know they are being paid more than they can get elsewhere. It's really just that simple.
You can only interpolate and run global models so much. Eventually you have to go to smaller and smaller regions. Then at a certain point you just have crappy data, which means someone needs to collect it. Other people need to correct all the above. That usually means lots of people, and lots of time. Something Google has had a lot of for a long time.
However Apple does have a ton of cash. They could throw a LOT of money at it and make a big difference in a few years. It would be like organizing a large army however.
For perspective on that "large army". Despite being twice the size of Google (based on market capitalization) Apple has ~ 13,000 non-retail employees, TOTAL, and Google has ~7,100 people working on Google Maps.
I'd take the WiiU over a PS3 if the WiiU played blu ray discs and supported DLNA for photo, music, and video streaming over the network.
As far as I know, it doesn't support any of that.
If It supported Bluray and DLNA it would easily replace my Wii and PS3. As it stands now I'll have to keep my PS3 for movies.
What about the Wii ? I get that you are primarily a PC / 360 gamer, but there are a number of Wii games that can be played 1 handed for a short term gaming fix... Light gun games, Dancing games Sports ( Madden / Tennis / Golf ) etc...
I'm still not of the belief this is something that needs to be "cured". It isn't a cancer; my son is highly functional and gifted in certain aspects. People just need to learn to accept "different".
I't's cheaper, better quality, and on demand. If I want to watch a show I can pay for a Netflix subscription or Amazon VOD and have immediate access in HD for a small fraction of what cable costs to provide me with shows I may or may not want when I may or may not want to watch them. Sure you could rent a DVR from your provider, but that costs as much or more than netflix, so meh... Cable is for the older generation.
The problem with making comic book stories on television is that you don't have the budget. Special effects cost money, and any truly 'super' hero is going to need special effects to wow the audience.
Without the multi-million dollar budget you get in movies, there are few superhero stories you can make well. Maybe something with minor SFX like Arrow (the Green Arrow TV show coming out in the fall), but nothing with real powers and real sensawunder. At best you'll just make lame soap operas like Smallville that occasionally hint at super powers being used in the background.
It depends on your focus. The Entire Bendis Daredevil run would make for a great TV show as it focuses primarily on Matt Murdock and Daredevil was practically a "guest star" in his own book.
If you care about openness
It's not necessarily about "openness" for everybody. Some of us are just tired of Microsoft and want to see somebody else win for a while. Personally I fall into that camp so I'm rooting for the inevitable amalgamation of ChromeOS and Android to get some traction.
I never understood the point of ChromeOS. Considering google is slapping Android on the devices that require a network connection to be useful (cell phones and TV) why bother with ChromeOS ? Get Chrome (proper) running on Android and call it a day.
Did you ever actually look for the Linux laptops on Dell's web site? I did, and it wasn't like they plastered them on the home page. It's not like it was even a choice when you were configuring your system. You had to go to a special sub-site with few or no links from other pages. You really had to know where it was to get to it.
So you're saying they want to get users ready for the "out of the box linux experience".
I love the publisher packs. They have a Bethesda pack right now with the Elder Scrolls games plus Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, plus all the DLC, for $50.
The problem is I might already have 3/4 of the titles because of the pack I bought last year. In this case I own the Fallout titles. It's still a good deal, but not as good as it would be for someone who didn't have a big library already.
I suppose it depends on if they give you giftable copies if you buy a new pack. Might be worth it then.
yup, and this would be apparent to ANYONE who actually walked into one of those rooms rather than reading stuff off a press-release. The rooms aren't set up for that kind of presentation, and nobody who goes there expects it to be.
Except that the last Harry Potter book was over 600 pages (over 700 pages in the US version, not sure what was added) and the story line actually justified being split into two movies.
As much as I enjoyed the last Harry Potter Book / Movie(s) I disagree that it couldn't of been told in 1 movie less than 3 hours long. If any of the books deserved the 2 part (or 4 hour) treatment it was Book 4.
Have to agree with that. I shunned steam for eons. Downside is have to be on line,
No it doesn't. At least not after you buy and download your game. I have steam on my laptop, and though I usually have it connected to the internet if I'm on a plane:
1) I launch the game (or steam).
2) It tries to connect, fails and asks if I want to go into offline mode.
3) choose offline, and play.
To date I haven't had a single issue with trying to play a game without an internet connection.
I play PC games through steam, and I'm patient. Haven't paid more than $30 for a game in years, and I'm not about to start.
Not sure if I'm more patient or cheap, but I haven't paid more than $10 for a single PC game in years thanks to steam sales. Then again Last year during Quake-Con they had a "iD and Bethesta Pack" which had 34 games (all the quakes, dooms, elder scrolls, fallout 3, new vegas) for $70 and that's still keeping me busy.
This specific part is about fixing the pre-existing loophole that someone who decides not to pay for insurance but piggy backs on the healthcare system by using the ER (which is more expensive than regular visits and pushes the burden on the rest of us through higher medical and insurance costs). As costs got higher, more and more people made this decision (or it was made for them). This isn't the primary reason for health care costs going up, but it's contributing to it. At some point in time, this gap was going to need to be filled in some way (otherwise you and I will continue to pay for their insurance). I would have preferred a carrot rather than a stick (or a stick disguised as a carrot), but I personally can't think of a better solution. Can you?
Kinda curious about something. How does imposing fines on non-participants actually help the healthcare model ?
If a person doesn't have insurance and doesn't get insurance they get a fine they have to pay now... yet they are still uninsured and have fewer resources to buy insurance after paying the fine. This is also a federal fine not a bill from a private company that can go to collections or written off, this is a tax where if you don't pay they can put a lien on your house or throw you in jail.
So assuming I have no insurance, and I can't afford it or for whatever reason don't get insurance. Any money I might of been saving will go to that fine (because hey, I like my house and jail not so much) and I still have to hit the ER and have someone else subsidize that cost.
"That's what the fine is for!" you might say, but that tax money doesn't go to the private insurer or hospitol, it goes to the government so the private hospital has to eat the cost anyway.
So unless I'm missing the news stories that describes how:
1) these uninsured people are automatically put into an insurance pool and they legitimately have issurance (and need to opt out vs opt in) and it's paid from the revenues of this tax OR
2) there's a Trust fund the government set up where this tax money is held seperate and private hospitals can file claims for re-imbursement for their unpaid emergency visits.
Then I fail to see how that fine does anything but punish those who are already struggling. If anyone can provide links for 1 or 2 I'd appreciate it.
I've wondered the same thing as I've seen ads that pretty much every major school district in my area are touting iPads for every student next year. I love new shiny tech, but I feel like 'get of my lawn' curmudgeon being skeptical on the benefits of outfitting every kid with a free-to-use tablet. It's especially frustrating when in the same article about the local district offering iPads to everyone (via a technology-specific millage) that same district is still 500k in the hole after cutting $1 million by way of faculty layoffs.
I haven't looked, but is there research showing that giving every student an iPad improves something?
Though I personally don't feel that a classroom full of iPads is as valuable as paying full time teachers, I can understand the budgetary logic in it. "Buying all this hardware, software, adapters... etc..." costs considerably less than paying for a teacher for that timeframe. If you have the money you can buy it once and ride it out a few years with minimal extra costs... wages, don't work that way.
They (AT&T, Xerox, IBM, and multinational companies of similar stature at the time) thought that the global information infrastructure would be centralized, monolithic and closed. Businesses and consumers would have to choose a provider that would provide the whole enchilada.
Not surprising. They figured "the internet" would be run like cable TV... hell Cable TV providers are still trying to make that happen.
...one way or the other. People who want the sleekest looking tablet or phone will go for the iPhone or iPad, and people who want the average market 'just gets the job done' will get Androids.
If they want "Shinny" then yeah, they might get the iPhone, but as for "just get the job done" ... that is the very definition of iOS. It doesn't integrate well with anything but iTunes and I was shocked to see how far behind it was compared to Android (gingerbread) in terms of functionality and usability. I went from a droid to an iphone 4s back to a droid after almost 2 weeks of that shit. I was glad I wasn't stuck with it. Fortunately in iOS 6 apple announced some features that have been present in android for over a year "are coming" but they still are far behind the curve because they don't want to give up that control.
Of course not. However, it's not my fault because my boss bought a shit cell phone that can't sink up with whatever before talking to me about it. By the very same (lack of) logic it is going to be my fault when the "cloud" explodes and goes down for three days. Many people are just not knowledgeable enough to understand where one sphere of influence begins and another ends. "
I hear that. I've had several executives ask me if I could reset their AOL password. :-/
What is the value of a random persons stolen linkedin account... I'm trying to figure out how its not zero. I have a pretty devious mind but I can't think of any way to make money off this with a reasonable chance of success.
I'm trying to figure out the value of an active LinkedIn account. Seriously, does anyone know of anybody who got hired thanks to linkedin ?
No, it's not. Believe me, I know, I've got both a PS3 and a Wii hooked on a HD TV. I can go back and forth between those consoles and feel no pain. Yes, games on the PS3 look much better, but I don't get to play less on the Wii because of that. Then again, I'm one of those old-schoolers that played on the Atari 2600 and NES, so I'm not in it for the looks, I'm in it for the fun. Go figure.
Same. I have all 3 systems and a 40" LCD. If you have the component cables and have it set to 480p it's fine.
...is why is it all so difficult to come up with some scheme to secure internet accessible resources. Corporate policy for me require password changes every 90 days and disallows any of the last eight passwords, and the use of letters and numbers. Effectively, I'm forced to write it down,
Why would you have to write it down ? Those requirements are trivial.
Our passwords change every 30 days, must be 8+ characters long, use 3 of the 4 character types ( UPPER, lower case, Numbers and special characters) you can't use the last 24 and they have a minimum password age of 1 day (so you can't cycle through them and go back to the old one) and you know what? It'sT SIMPLE to come up with a password that fits those requirements and remember them, you just need a pneumonic device.
Stuff like: "Summer2012" , "It'sFriday" , "FreeFood!" "Grads2012" , "WTFjusthappened?" or "FuckThisShit!" all fit complexity requirements and are pretty simple to remember.
or 6.25e14, that's 625 trillion. At a million cracking attemps per second,
that gives 19.8 years for an exhaustive search.
You are right in principle, but your cracking speed is way off - we are not talking millions of attempts per second but instead billions.
Entirely academic. What IT Admin with a brain allows infinite failed attempts on an account ? Even if you could hit the server with BILLIONS of attempts in a second, where is the value when my system will lock that account (and requires a human to manually unlock it) after 5 failed attempts ?
Set login restrictions so a student can only log into specific machines. If that's too much of a hassle (logistically not technically) there are tools to restrict the number of concurrent log ons they are allowed (at least in Active Directory) and you can set that to 1. It also helps if your apps use integrated authentication because if they share their password and someone else logs in as them, not only can that new person not do their work, the person who gave up their password can't log in and do their own work.