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Not for profit? You bet! But in the red at the taxpayers expense? Shouldn't happen.
*headdesk*
The USPS is part of the government. The government is funded by taxes.
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Sure the USPS is good... for us. They still lost over a billion this year. I'd call that broken...
The USPS is not a for-profit business.
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Well, I'd take issue with the Post Office being broken. The butt of jokes, sure, but all my letters get delivered and I receive all my mail, and at a reasonable cost.
The USPS is fantastic.
The bits about the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 and Cash for Clunkers are hilarious.
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The downside was that a lot of folks who never knew they had egg allergies , wound up getting a flu shot based on egg for the first time and had allergic reactions and many died. (well the record shows "dozens died within hours" of receiving the shot, obvious anaphalactic shock from allergic response) .This out of 40 million vaccinated; not hundreds or thousands of deaths, just a few dozen. ( In its final reckoning, the government counted 25 deaths associated with the shots.)
As I recall, the vaccine still killed more people than the flu. It was probably as safe as it could have been but it was still a bit embarrassing.
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Actually, Mozilla disabled it, after consulting with Microsoft, because of a vulnerability. MS fixed the vulnerability before Mozilla updated the block list, but oh well.
Anyway, since the vulnerability is in the plugin (or the .NET Framework) Chrome should be affected. Either install the update from Microsoft or disable the plugin in Chrome.
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Have you read about this?
Yeah. As I understand the situation it was entirely was Danger's fault. T-Mobile sold the handsets and the network service but Danger was responsible for the data.
It's probably too much to hope that this will lead to people to reconsider trusting the cloud with their data.
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T-Mobile gave me unlimited data for $6/month. If they sent a customer service rep to stab me I'd still rate them "excellent".
Really, though, I like T-Mobile. They're relatively inexpensive, reliable, honest, a bit boring, a bit anachronistic, occasionally brilliant. In a word, German.
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I like how the AP "spun" their coverage in one story. They seemed all, "this, but that, see how fair and balanced we can be," and then added a notation that, golly, it's a myth that the prize was supposed to be for actual accomplishments, it's also awarded to encourage people to work toward peace. Umm, that's not quite what Alfred Nobel had in mind as his will states, "[The Peace Prize should be awarded] to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
I think the AP is correct: the Nobel committee does occasionally award the prize to encourage people and organizations who've accomplished little or nothing but whose efforts the committee supports. One outstanding example is Aung San Suu Kyi.
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At least Obama got countries, that were offended by Bush, to talk with and support us again.
On the other hand, he's managed to offend the leaders of Afghanistan, France, and half of Eastern Europe. ISTR that Merkel sounded a bit unhappy toward the end of the G-20 too.
Edit: And Honduras. Oh God, Honduras....
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Awesome! Well deserved Mr. President!
But... but... he hasn't done anything!
sudden left turn
Fun discussion at the Volokh Conspiracy about the constitutionality of the Obama accepting the prize.
Obama seems to have angered the gods of obscure constitutional provisions. First there was the possible Emoluments Clause violation and now a possible Title of Nobility Clause violation. How many non-lawyers even know that those clauses exist?
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Just thought I'd mention it. Now I'm off to slam my head against a wall until I forget.
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This is almost as retarded as the AMD magical multithreading rumor a couple years ago.
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You might want to see if the drivers can be downloaded and look over the instructions. IIRC HP had at least one product that required Windows to install the Mac software. Seriously.
(Edit: Found it.)
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Urge to kill... rising.
Twitter is a personal microblogging service. Personal blogs are supposed to be self-focused. That's the whole point. Twitter's focus on SMS arguably makes it (or made it) even more personal than typical personal blogs.
We need someone to conduct a study to determine the exact moment when (semi-)professional bloggers ruined blogging.
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Funny thing about Europe: They're electing more center and right-of-center candidates. Apparently they haven't yet had their guts full.
We're in a recession. Germany and Italy are moving to the right.
This will end well.
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Higher percentage in the 30's but far more people out of work now.
Maybe not. The population in the mid-'30s was around 130 million and the unemployment rate at the peak of the Depression was around 25%. The population now is bit over 300 million and the unemployment rate is a bit under 10%. If the potential workforce as a fraction of population is the same, there would have been more people out of work in the '30s (32.5x million vs 30x million).
Maybe we should come up with a plan that could make some changes not just for the sake of change.That's crazy talk.
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We bailed out companies so thousands of bankers can keep there six and seven figure salaries while we have just hit a new all time high unemployment mark.
The national unemployment rate is still less than half of the peak in the '30s. (Or thereabouts. I gather that the way the unemployment rate is calculated has changed over the years.)
We just changed the law in Massachusetts so we don't need to elect a new senator we can just appoint one.Like nearly every other state. The Constitution explicitly permits executive appointments to fill Senate vacancies.
And now we want to tax working people so Gangbangers, skinheads, career criminals, hillbillies, illegal aliens etc. have full health coverage adding 45 million more patients to our health facilities.The taxpayers already provide those people with health coverage through the prison system.
And as it is right now hospitals don't turn anyone away.And the taxpayers pay for that through higher insurance premiums. So far this seems to be a wash.
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However, the media campaign that is being waged against the Obama health care plan is different in one respect.
There's a media campaign?
Obama's enemies have very deep pockets, they can afford to spend hundreds of millions in an attempt to sway public opinion. When Liberals throw a few jabs we don't have the financial clout of the pharmaceutical companies behind us.In other news, the current health care reform plan was crafted by an insurance industry executive turned Baucus aide. [Edit: Gah, what happened with that link? Fixed, I hope]
No one saw that coming.
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already some politician has called him a liar
in parliment
unheard of in the history
of american politics
Someone should compile a list of all of the times Clinton and Bush were booed and jeered and accused of lying by members of Congress.
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PC:
Windows 7 is as secure or more secure than Mac. but to run your games or CAD or some .net software you have to just do these easy steps
Click icon. If you get a UAC prompt, read the damn prompt and then take the appropriate action.
if viruses are based on market shareI wouldn't expect the number of viruses to be proportional to operating system market share. Related, but not proportional.
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which was my point at the top.. if everything needs administrative privilege to maintain backwards capability. it dose not matter what other protections you add. your already the admin..
Right, it's privilege management that's the problem. Unfortunately, the problem doesn't seem to have solution. UAC was a good effort but I think Microsoft overestimated people's willingness to be slightly inconvenienced. Aggressive virtualization, something like IBM VM's 'every account is a virtual machine', might work but if it knocked even 1% off D3D performance it would be DOA.
Anyway, the problem is applications that need administrator privileges. The good news is that if don't use those applications it's not a problem. You can use a limited account and UAC or runas when necessary and everything works pretty much the way it does on OS X. And if you do that I wouldn't be surprised if NT 6 is more secure than OS X.
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Oh come on. ASLR doesn't provide protection because it can circumvented if you have administrator privileges‽
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]Windows underling issue is not number of users or sales or any unrelated excuses. its account escalation. To do anything on windows you need to be admin (root in UNIX like Snow Leopard) you can not install software, hardware or run a lot of games with out admin access.
The underlying issue is application compatibility. The need to maintain application compatibility is driven largely by the size of the installed base.
there is an argument that Memory Randomization may not really be any protection at all.Not a very good argument. <snark>Unless you're referring to Leopard's implementation.</snark>
Windows it is not always easy to turn off services even when you know you need to.case in point
I think the goal there is to disable SMB2 without disabling the service. If you wanted to disable SMB completely I assume you could just turn off the sharing service(s).
also Microsoft has turned this off by default in Windows 7 and in internet explorer 8AFAIK ASLR is enabled-but-opt-in by default in Win7, just like Vista.
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Yes, but doesn't Bill Gates retain 51% of the stock?
I think the BBC story is wrong, BTW. Microsoft's board approved shareholder review of executive pay, not the other way around.
Do you think they can?
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Social Security is supported by several dedicated trust funds. I don't know about Medicare and Medicaid.
It hasn't mattered since people realized that you can't win economics by hoarding money.