Well if it's privatized, then maybe they'll do things more like Israel. I don't know much beyond anecdotes (on here) about their screening process, but I gather it's a simple and short Q&A where they profile you and search if needed. I hear it's more efficient and without the groping. I'm assuming they have a higher incident of people wanting to blow up planes over there that the US does, but I could be wrong.

This could be a good thing. Now if they are given the same powers to abuse that the current TSA has, then nothing will change. Hopefully a private company will pay their workers more and have incentive to streamline things to maximize their profits.

This will probably hurt the economy more due to putting people out of work. The TSA is a jobs program as well as a theater performance. I doubt many of them would be hired by private firms, as they can weed out the good ones, pay them more, and streamline the process to do it with fewer people.

The NYSE Specialists are the real scumbags.

Good reading:
http://bearfactsspecialistreport.com/

Good info. I would guess that backfired on the firm using the e-minis as a hedge... Unless they anticipated selling them at such low prices when filled the buy orders...

But most likely the entire thing was choreographed and they made plenty of money (as well as their in-the-know friends). Firms with that kind of money don't fuck up.

We use Websense, but I have no idea how much it costs. Websense categorizes websites based on URL and you can block individual categories. You can also block protocols individually. You can also just log and not block. Very flexible. The database of categories is updated daily. You can customize what they categorize as much as you want. If you submit a request for global recategorization, it usually gets done within an hour. This goes out to the public database. This is common when you launch a website that used to be a parked domain. You make sure Websense has it categorized correctly rather than as "parked domain" because that one is usually blocked.

Now the problem with website categorization is that 90% of the internet is not categorized by Websense. Then there is the increasing problem of sites serving content from multiple URLs or IPs. SSL is only blockable if you explicitly put the IP in. URLs are parsed with regex, so you get some false positives sometimes.

You probably don't need to block sites as much as you need to block protocols. It does that too. You can also track bandwidth usage, etc. There is full AD integration and you can define different blocking policies based on group membership, etc.

You can do whitelist only with it if you want.

After writing all of that it sounds expensive. I don't know how much it costs. You can probably use Websense Express depending on your needs and number of employees.

Any ISP logs, etc. regarding the content accessed would show it to be accessed from the home's internet connection -- not the business's.

On my Windows 7 machine, a full screen high def silverlight stream from netflix consumes significantly less CPU than the same resolution flash-based stream from ESPN3. Vsync isn't an issue, either. Perhaps it's my video card with hardware h.264 decoder or perhaps the silverlight implementation on XP is not too good. Just my experience.

Don't know what to tell you about silverlight on linux or why netflix doesn't care. There is probably not a significant enough market to justify the cost involved. It's all about money. There are no emotionally-based or irrational decisions being made, and they would support it if the money was there.

Apparently Google Street View doesn't work without flash. Quite a pain in the ass.

Cool story, bro!

No shit. That was a great game. The first time I stole it was unintentional. Thought it was a bug until I was referred to as Thief.

Good for this guy. I know nothing about ReactOS, but I'm happy for him. I dare say a lot of us are working on various pet projects that would get all sorts of funding and support if they were discovered by someone(s) capable of giving funding. As it's always been, it's about being in the right place at the right time and/or knowing the right people.

Yes, and the the citizens of the US will gladly give them more money to enrich the C*Os. The populace in the US loves taking it up the ass.

This is designed to make it easier for insurance companies to deny payment in more situations. The overhead created will increase costs for everyone and that's good for the people at the top.

Hopefully the system implodes on itself.

We're witnessing the fall of corporatism in this country. It's quickly approaching the point where they won't have any producing employees left. I used to think there was some nefarious plan, but it's starting to look more and more like incompetence and shortsigtedness. Dunning-Kruger effect across the board. The sociopaths at the top in this country have been allowed to go on so long unchecked that human nature is kicking in and they are being self-destructive.

Car analogy: Stupid teenage driver runs red lights and takes corners too fast over and over again. The more he does it with success, the more brazen he becomes. Then he wrecks and hopefully dies.

Then someone trolls his memorial and goes to prison.

This is why I don't lend or give money to people. They always want more and what I do is never good enough.

Wow, how fucking insightful. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.