http://slashdot.org/submission... oh nevermind

OK this is tangentially on topic, especially if you're talking about cool map tricks.

There are many individual groups holding related events throughout my state, however attempts to create a shared calendar for them have not had all the features we'd like. We've tried shared Google Calender, Wordpress plugins, etc, and none have had all the features we'd like. We'd also like to avoid existing large sites like Meetup, as we'd like to only have our own events displayed on the Calender/Map. And we want to make sure individual organizers have full control over their own event's calender and can link to an existing Google Calender/iCalender. Ideally this could be ramped up for larger than state usage, but for now we're trying to replace a myriad of individual calenders spread all over the place, and a single Google Calender that attempts to gather them in being maintained by one person.

An example: Magic the Gathering has many individual groups and stores running events, with many individual organizers. Ideally the Calender/Map system would be able to pull in many individual calenders and display them in a shared Calender/Map with filtering by City, Region, and even by Event Sub Type such as Game Type, Ranked Games, etc. It should hopefully be embeddable on any other website and provide it's own (filterable) export in standard calender formats.

Any help is appreciated!

This has been linked to as the "start of Operation Chokepoint"

Supervisory Insights - Summer 2011 - Managing Risks in Third-Party Payment Processor Relationships

Some merchant categories that have been associated with high-risk activity include, but are not limited to:

Ammunition Sales Cable Box De-scramblers Coin Dealers Credit Card Schemes Credit Repair Services Dating Services Debt Consolidation Scams Drug Paraphernalia Escort Services Firearms Sales Fireworks Sales Get Rich Products Government Grants Home-Based Charities Life-Time Guarantees Life-Time Memberships Lottery Sales Mailing Lists/Personal Info Money Transfer Networks On-line Gambling PayDay Loans Pharmaceutical Sales Ponzi Schemes Pornography Pyramid-Type Sales Racist Materials Surveillance Equipment Telemarketing Tobacco Sales Travel Clubs

...

Appropriate Supervisory Responses

In those instances where examiners determine that a financial institution fails to have an adequate program in place to monitor and address risks associated with third-party payment processor relationships, formal or informal enforcement actions may be appropriate. Formal actions have included Cease and Desist Orders under Section 8(b) or 8(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance (FDI) Act, as well as assessment of Civil Money Penalties under Section 8(i) of the FDI Act. These orders have required the financial institution to immediately terminate the high-risk relationship and establish reserves or funds on deposit to cover anticipated charge backs.

As appropriate, the examiner will determine if financial institution management has knowledge that the payment processor or the merchant clients are engaging in unfair or deceptive practices in violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. In those cases where a financial institution does not conduct due diligence, accepts a heightened level of risk, and allows transactions for high-risk merchants to pass though it, it may be determined that the financial institution is aiding and abetting the merchants. This also could indicate a disregard for the potential for financial harm to consumers and, as a result, the financial institution may be subject to civil money penalties or required to provide restitution.

Correct on many points, just adding:

Delphi came through bankruptcy due to these "supply chains can't fail" issues. It should of been broken up and replaced with something better, but it would of caused way too much turmoil in the industry.

There may be many unions in the area, but there is no tech union, and you're right I've never had to directly interact with one. The closest I've EVER gotten is having to call a certain office to get union guys to move furniture in the RenCen. Once in 25+ years.

Side note: these tech jobs don't exist, they're the same ones that have been posted over and over to bring in new visa holders, for the last 10+ years in some cases! (Ford/GM are especially bad at posting these never filled positions)
HEX

A photographer in a forum I frequent has been trying to get VK to remove his pictures from their site where a user uploaded them, and received this answer to his requests:

By publishing content in free access, every user grants it freedom to spread across the Internet and there's no way to stop that process. Even if we're talking about posts plagiarism we need official copyright proof in order to take actions. This is Internet after all. Everything belongs to everyone and any information becomes public sooner or later. VK Support Team.

I wonder if their location puts them in Crimea, the Ukraine, or Russia, and if their policy to ignore copyright laws plays a part in their decision.

How are these going to differentiate between drivers and passengers? And if, as many studies are finding, even talking hands free involves the same risk as texting/etc, does that mean all phone usage would have to be turned off? How about using cell phones as GPS nav devices, something I do often myself, are actual GPS systems somehow magically less distracting? Do we ban all screens in the driver's view, including radios, nav devices, and the instrument panel? I find passengers distracting sometimes, how do they impact accident rates? Or is this getting a bit ridiculous... - HEX

Main Feature List http://www.irfanview.com/main_... has Screen Capturing on it, so main program not plugin.

So what, I was there, experienced it, it's gone. Let this go the same way. - HEX

If we have many different groups posting events all across the state, what is best for not only showing them on a calender but also locations on a map?

Think Magic/Game Events!
Each event may have a different owner, or group of owners posting them.
It should be easy to view on the map for people to easily see what Events are close to them for any particular day.

Currently we're thinking multiple Google Calenders but it loses all coloring and requires everyone who wants to do a calender to have google. Plus, no mapping.

I know that when I am being data mined I am very likely to pick the funny or ironic answer to any poll. The less intelligent the dumbest option is, the more likely I am to select it. My data is valuable and if you aren't gong to pay a fair price, and you intend to use it to subvert my happiness, I am not likely to go quietly to the slaugter.

I remember some movie where a guy lands in a Gulag and is being forced to make mitten liners. He learns from one of the other guys to sew them shut across the fingers and then hide the sabatoged ones by slipping them into the "already inspected" pile. It is sabatoge and it's faster than making the proper stitch so it's easier to meet the quota.

Lots of people maliciously answer polls and such, or so I suspect, which is why they are such a terrible instrument of governance and polity.

And P.S. if you don't limit people to thinking about tech, well there are _many_ blue species of sting and mant rays, so contextually they might have a point on answering some of those questions. Its that whole ability to read past typos that humans are so gifted with.

So conclusion? Polls suck, they suck slightly more than the pollsters conducting them, um-kay?

The sad truth is that HTML is just an accessory fruit for delivering other seeds of ideas, good and bad. Most of those ideas are capable of hosting infections, particularly DRM, computer viruses, and the kind of porn you wish you could unsee.

The linux kernel is full of gotos. Assembly is bereft blocks and that sort of structure. So "goto" isn't the source of all evil.

Consier this example of the linux goto paradigm below. When taking locks and establsihing component preconditions you can write an optimal routine that does the stepwise creation, and includes the non-conditional cleanup. Then skipping the cleanup if all the parts succede. The example below is trivial, but when it comes to preserving locking orders it solves a hard problem very simply. And if you check out the generated code its very efficent. More so if you hint the compiler that the success case is most likely for each conditional.

So take the simple example and imagine you are building something complex like a network request with data and metadata buffers and the actual request structure itself et al... as the number of parts grow the number of bizarre else conditions you have to use to do stepwise cleanup become bothersome repetitions of code. Its even worse if it's part1 _or_ part2 along with part3 etc. Complexity and repetition of phrases in the elses is plenty of reason to use goto.

complex_thing * hard_thing() {
complex_thing * retval = 0;
thing_pt1 * pt1 = 0;
thing_pt2 * pt2 = 0;
if (pt1 = generate_first()) {
    if (pt2 = generate_last(pt1)) {
        if (retval = generate_final(pt1,pt2)) {
            goto success;
        }
    }
}
if (pt2) cleanup_last(pt2);
if (pt1) cleanup_first(pt1);
success:
return retval;
}

Simply put, there are times when a well-placed goto with a clear purpose and precondition can simplify code and accelerate execution.

Do I use a lot of gotos? no. Probably six C/C++ gotos in the last fifteen years. But when they are the correct tool to use, they can be magical.

Since all machine code is potentially brittle, the argument for using "safety aware languages" is itself brittle. For instance, Ada is safe because it doesn't allow deallocation unless you use ada.unchecked_deallocation(), or in the alternate, build nothing on the heap, or just hope that the Ada implementation has garbage collection, or..., or... etc.

_Someone_ has to do the work to protect whatever the brittleness is at issue.

For years I have used "struct Buffer { char * start, char * end};" instead of just char * string. (thing.end-thing.begin) is faster than strlen() and the constraints are always present. I've got a library full of simple bits that make this work (a wrapper around write(2) and read(2) for example).

Bad code can be written in any language. Java is safe? Well kind of, until you start making circles of referencds and losing them. sounds harmless unles there is a task and open socket in that circular reference and you've left a link back to some structure so that the socket is now able to access some nonsense.

The best tools in the worst hands are far worse than the worst tools in the best hands. Yelling for tools is a specious argument. Someone has to do the work, and that someone may well bone the job.