I think it's a brilliant way to manage this. I've had so many friends talk about having to deal with dog poop in the halls and stairwells of their condos. If Building management is being non-confrontational about it then I don't really see it as a problem. It quickly identifies the issue and applies the charge where it's due.

From TFA:

Interpretation: Without proof, some pet owners felt entitled to do as they pleased.

Then:

Interpretation: WITH proof, (almost ALL) pet owners now clean up as per the condo rules.

I see this as a success. People without pets don't step in poo in their own hallways. Abiding pet-owners don't get blamed and / or berated. Problem pet-owners bear the cost of their choices.

I guess a logical progression of this is that, the more success you have, the greater the potential for your fear, so the stronger your desire for control. That explains why those who can AND do succeed might influence a significant level of control on others.

I've qualified ALL of what I've written. Not everyone who succeeds is greedy, and not everyone who is greedy succeeds.

America is 'the land of Opportunity", that is "I can succeed". It is a land of personal wealth and invidual accomplishments.

Don't get me wrong, there are MANY people that make a difference for a lot of other people. But the central premise is individual success as a primary objective. And Greed, at some minor or maor level, is a motivator to succeed personally.

So you've succeeded, and your greed helped. Now you have success, and you want to keep it.

So you are afraid.

And you want to control the situation to keep what you got
And control others to keep them from getting what you got.

Because now they want to sell your OWN COUNTRY spying on you the same way a USED CAR SALESMAN sells you snow tires / tyres.

Thanks guys

Is it fair to say that another shortcoming of PGP/GPG is that it encrypts the message body only, leaving the envelope in the clear?

If this is indeed the case then we're right back to the metadata situation where the [who | when | where] I communicate it known, but not necessarily the _what_ (I'm sure the NSA will make up their own justification for _why_ I'm communicating).

Funny. I was required to take an English course.

Surprisingly enough, I also took an english course in French. They were teaching the French language, but the class made use of a liberal amount of the English language.

Also:

Hudson (forked by the founders as Jenkins)

Thanks for letting me know that, Oracle.

By the way, how is Hudson doing for ya?

Right you are, and so to repeat my last line:

Perhaps they hope to change the system. I would love to see that sort of thing happen

Disclaimer: I'm Canadian, but I have been to texas once.

Ok, 1) Read TFA, 2) don't know much about selling cars (hate BUYING them enough).

Is it possible for Tesla to franchise out a small Tesla dealership in these states? ie, play by the rules? Perhaps only to the barest letter of the "rules"?

Are they not allowed to set a "no haggle price" model with the dealership? I'm not sure why not, since The Saturn Car company did that. They either allow for a few points for the dealership in a "dealership price" in texas, or they take a few points hit when selling in this model in texas. or both. It would then give them access to those markets.

It really does seem like they're playing chicken, or "ok, if I can't play my way, I'm taking my marbles and going home".

Perhaps they hope to change the system. I would love to see that sort of thing happen.

Yes, but I'd like it to 3,840 x 2,160 resolution video at 120 or 240fps.

I imagine that technology adhering to this 2.0 standard will be obsolete by the time it hits the shelves. Maybe that's the plan. I'll hold out for 3,840 x 2,160 resolution video at 120/240fps, thank you.

RIM should package and sell their killer app: The integrated Email / Calender / Contacts system. IMO, it would change the face of productivity on android-based phones.

The BEST feature of my old BB was the seamless nature of accepting meeting (calender) requests via email, using contact information on the phone. This was just using my normal email provider, not a BES setup. Worked like a charm!

Then I added a BES email account, and that worked well also.

in Gmail (on the android), I can receive and accept calender requests from other gmail accounts, but not from MS outlook, BB, or iPhone. I've dug all around about this, I've read craploads of comments about the same thing, and I've not seen anyone solve this. At BEST, I only get "workaround" suggestions, but the fact remains that RIM did it best.

I've had my Samsung android phone for a year or two now, and despite trying a boatload of different (free and paid) email apps, I've never seen one that can manage calender requests, and integrations between contact info in email and the calender, like my old Blackberry.

There is precedent here as well, with the "blackeberry connect" suite that's been around for a while now, installable on the old Nokia 9300 / 9500 (running symbian OS). Did they ever make this for android?

1978 - Processor Technology Sol-20
1979 - 8K Pet
1981 - 32K Pet
1983 - IBM XT
1989 - PC Clone

Some great stories here! Never too young to start, or old to learn! Very cool :)

I started on in 1978 (I was 12-13) and my dad bought me a Sol-20 from a colleague of his. It was sold as either a kit computer or a completed system and I remember the dude from whom he bought it, so I think it really was bought as a kit rather than pre-assembled. It came with 8K of static ram, a tape recorder and a copy of their 5K integer (no strings) Basic. Do that math; that left 3K for program space.

Other than hello world programs, my dad also bought me a copy of Creative Computer's Book of 101 Basic Games. I found a few of the smaller games (many wouldn't fit into 3K), diligently typed them in from the book, and watched them fail (SN-ERROR AT LINE 10). Thus began my world of debugging and adaptation. I learned that this basic would not handle strings, data reads, or matrices (only arrays). But the debugging and modifications gave me the foundation to start writing my own work. Wrote a dice-rolling game, then a horse-racing game (horses ran according to their odds). My dad bought me another 8K S100 card a year later, and I could run the advanced basic on that.

In high school I sold the Sol-20 and bought an 8K Commodore Pet computer, which was handy since my high school had about six of them, and I could trade programs (Creative computing games!) with the other kids.

I bought a DEC LA-100 printer cover from a local surplus store in 1981 which had an acoustic coupler built into it. Got a wiring diagram and Steve Punter's modem program (I'm a Toronto boy like Steve, and he was at the TPUG meetings), and I was off to the telephonic races! I quickly became a junkie of the Toronto BBS scene.

First thing I did in 1983 when I got my IBM XT was to find BBS software (written in basic - sloooow), and re-write it so I had my own BBS software. Found the PC-BBS source (in basic), stripped out everything other than the parts that worked the modem, and wrote the rest from scratch. It was sluggish (interpreted Basic) and not ENTIRELY bug free ;) Dropped messages here and there; we ended up calling our first BBS the Black Hole.

Re-wrote the entire thing in Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0 in 1984, and it motored! By then my friends and I were running 4-5 Vanguard BBSes in Toronto. This was when FIDONet had started batching mail between their systems, so we set out to design a multi- topology short/long haul mail routing system.

The rest as they say is history :)

That'll teach 'er!

The Amazon Cloud Player may be a native app NOW, but I'm betting that Apple with remove it from the App store within a few days unless Amazon shutdown down the web music store.

And they can do that sort of thing, to protect their market share. This has nothing to do with "user experience"; it's all about Apple getting their money.