Standards Compliancy Pays Off Again

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Beta tests announced of mortgage
industry XML standards (E-Business
Standards Today)

Beta tests announced of mortgage
industry XML standards (E-Business
Standards Today) 07/23/2002 05:15 PM

You thought web standards were bad, how
about PC, DVD and Recorder standards
too?

You thought web standards were bad, how
about PC, DVD and Recorder standards
too? 11/06/2003 07:39 AM
move everything to a built in copy-protection scheme .. Buy Digital TVs, VCRs and DVD players NOW .. The end of recording TV shows approaches

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Standards Lowdown: Standards Selection
is Vendor Selection

Standards Lowdown: Standards Selection
is Vendor Selection 06/23/2004 06:58 PM
Just as the open source movement has changed attitudes to software and software vendors, so phenomena like RSS may be changing attitudes to the creation and maintenance of industry standards.

It pays to have the right hit man

It pays to have the right hit man 12/29/2003 09:54 AM
Boston Globe Dec 29 2003 8:41AM ET

US web campaigning pays off

US web campaigning pays off 07/08/2004 12:28 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Wed Jul 7, 06:31 pm GMT

Al Queda pays with $2's?

Al Queda pays with $2's? 04/07/2005 12:53 PM
Best Buy's highly skilled staff of cashier-working counterfeit detectors, "a little nervous in the post-9/11 world", has the Baltimore police department put customer Mike Bolesta in handcuffs and leg irons after he uses uncommon but legal US currency to pay his bill.

"Meanwhile, everybody's looking at me. I've lived here 18 years. I'm hoping my kids don't walk in and see this. And I'm saying, 'I can't believe you're doing this. I'm paying with legal American money.'" Bolesta was then taken to the county police lockup in Cockeysville, where he sat handcuffed to a pole and in leg irons while the Secret Service was called in.

Janus Pays Up

Janus Pays Up 04/13/2004 05:06 PM
The CEO gets a $3.4 million bonus for 2003. Is he worth it?

Microsoft pays EU in ful

Microsoft pays EU in ful 07/03/2004 05:23 AM
Techzonez Jul 3 2004 8:18AM GMT

IBM pays up for N.Y. pollution

IBM pays up for N.Y. pollution 09/03/2004 08:42 AM
The Register Sep 3 2004 12:08PM GMT

How Retirement Pays Off

How Retirement Pays Off 07/23/2004 11:23 AM
How do you plan to withdraw your retirement funds?

Who pays for this bl0g?

Who pays for this bl0g? 08/14/2004 05:13 PM
David Akin has started something that ought to become standard issue for all blogs: An upfront disclosure statement of who pays for the blog and where the conflicts of interest might be. (This should make Zephyr Teachout of the Dean campaign happy; I spent some time with her at the Demo Convention and she wanted to see something just like this happen.) So, now we can argue for the next 9 months about exactly what ought to go into one of these statements, and who's more dislosive than whom, but let's at least get started. Here's a first draft of...

Bulgaria Pays 1.2 M for PCs

Bulgaria Pays 1.2 M for PCs 07/17/2004 02:42 PM
novinite.com Jul 17 2004 5:27PM GMT

IBM pays off Compuware

IBM pays off Compuware 03/23/2005 07:33 AM
Case closed...

Who pays for the news

Who pays for the news 04/04/2005 06:01 PM
Fallout from the exposure of propaganda videos used by the Bush administration has tarred journalists on both ends of the political spectrum.

IBM pays up for NY pollution

IBM pays up for NY pollution 09/03/2004 08:42 AM
Homeowners get compensation

Crime pays?

Crime pays? 09/23/2004 01:23 PM

Sven Jaschan, 18, from Germany, is believed responsible for writing 70 per cent of all computer viruses received worldwide in the first half of this year, i.e. the Sasser and Netsky worms. At the time, he was a minor and probably won't face jail. Instead, he began a full-time job as a trainee programmer at the German firewall company Securepoint earlier this month. [news.telegraph]

NHS pays out to hepatitis victims

NHS pays out to hepatitis victims 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
NHS patients infected with hepatitis C from contaminated blood are to get Ł20,000 each in compensation.

PayPal Pays a Price

PayPal Pays a Price 08/02/2004 02:08 PM
The online service has settled a class action lawsuit, and its users have an opportunity to benefit.

Bad Spelling Pays on eBay

Bad Spelling Pays on eBay 01/28/2004 10:17 AM

Who Pays for Wireless Cities?

Who Pays for Wireless Cities? 09/21/2004 12:38 PM

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To fight disease, it pays to have the
right hit man

To fight disease, it pays to have the
right hit man 12/29/2003 03:31 AM
Boston Globe Dec 29 2003 1:48AM ET

Internet poker pays off

Internet poker pays off 07/10/2004 04:54 AM
Winnipeg Sun Jul 10 2004 8:08AM GMT

Microsoft pays EU in full

Microsoft pays EU in full 07/02/2004 11:29 AM
update Company could have submitted a promissory note for its fine but instead ponies up $600 million, as its appeal continues.

The Case Against Editors - Why it still
pays to not have one.

The Case Against Editors - Why it still
pays to not have one. 10/29/2003 09:10 AM
it's not nearly as unsafe .. much-commented-on piece .. decisive blow for blogs .. has the same problem .. long defense .. MICKEY KAUS .. blogging .. defense .. Kaus

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Verizon pays MCI bill

Verizon pays MCI bill 12/30/2003 12:02 AM
USA Today Dec 29 2003 11:02PM ET

Alliance Gaming Pays Off Big

Alliance Gaming Pays Off Big 02/01/2005 10:13 PM
The company is the largest percentage gainer on the NYSE today.

Porter pays Ł12m to Westminster

Porter pays Ł12m to Westminster 07/05/2004 09:22 AM
Dame Shirley Porter pays Ł12m to Westminster Council as part of a deal over her role in a homes for votes scandal.

Guess what? Spam pays

Guess what? Spam pays 11/16/2003 09:39 PM

You know that saying that crime doesn't pay? Every day it's becoming increasingly clear to me that spam does in fact pay.

As I delete comment spam after comment spam from PVRblog, I've noticed the products being sold are almost all over-the-counter or shady pharmacutical drugs that can be easily bought, sold, and shipped. Most of my email spam mirrors that as well.

It's a low-risk thing when you think about it. You buy a minimal amount of inventory, then broadcast your message from one of the hundreds of businesses setup to help you, or free spam cannon programs you can download. They say that some percentage of folks buy stuff in spam, and even if that's only 0.1% success, when you send out 5 million messages, you can make $5,000 if each sale gives you a profit of one dollar. If your profit is higher (and it should be), you can sell much less and still make that much money. Imagine it: one day of doing the devil's work and you've made as much as you will in a month of work at a $60k desk job.

Four to five years ago, I used to spend quite a bit of energy on combating spam. I read anti-spammer email lists and newsgroups, I used a spamcop account, and I sent messages daily to every abuse@hostingprovider address I could track down that hosted these bastards. I watched hundreds of other vigilante spam fighters do the same and as we shut down site after site and got person after person cut off from their service, I noticed they kept coming back, only multiplied. Eventually I grew weary of the work I put out that didn't seem to have much impact on the problem and started filtering my spam instead.

A few days ago I got some spam from a guy that has been sending me the same exact niche spam for 8 years. I know the guy that is doing it, I know where he lives, and I can tell you what dialup account he's using right now if I looked. I've reported him a dozen times and gotten him kicked off ISPs but all these years later he's still hawking his crappy products. Obviously, the guy never gave up and I'm convinced there's a financial reason for it. Spam pays, and it probably pays big.

All this is a long way of saying that I have no doubt that every word of Mark Pilgrim's post about the future of weblog spam is the gospel truth. I've seen it happen in email and usenet, and it's going to happen to weblogs as well, and as hard as we fight, it's not going to do a whole hell of a lot of good (Jason posted pretty much the same thing a week ago).

Even with my technical knowledge, a handful of custom filtering server-side and client-side programs, spam is getting through to me in such quantities that I wish I didn't have to rely on email so much. Weblog spam is making me rethink commenting on any movable type site I run. It's exhausting, pointless to fight, and I really wish we could come up with a magic bullet that removes the economic incentive to spam.

ATI's strategy pays off

ATI's strategy pays off 06/28/2004 09:56 AM
globetechnology.com Jun 28 2004 2:36PM GMT

Cisco pays $65m for Protego

Cisco pays $65m for Protego 12/22/2004 01:11 AM
Keeping tabs on security threats

Wilco pays for spycasts

Wilco pays for spycasts 06/23/2004 05:38 PM

Wired has a bizarre story of music and sampling royalties involving found sound recordings by one person sold as CDs which the band Wilco sampled from. What is unusual about the case is the company claiming copyright on the sounds, Irdial Discs, didn't perform or write the shortwave broadcasts of what is reportedly hours of spy messages. Irdial simply recorded (and obtained recordings from others) four discs full of it and released it as a compilation. While they embrace free downloading and sharing of the tracks, they do prohibit commercial use, which Wilco looped on a successful 2002 album. As the article states, many legal experts are unsure if Irdial had the rights to demand royalties and point out that future musicians may be wary of using found sounds such as these.

Wilco Pays Up for Spycasts

Wilco Pays Up for Spycasts 06/23/2004 06:15 AM
Wired News Jun 23 2004 9:48AM GMT

Google X pays homage to Mac OS X

Google X pays homage to Mac OS X 03/17/2005 03:42 AM
Macworld.com - Wed Mar 16, 12:49 pm GMT

Regal Pays Dividends

Regal Pays Dividends 02/10/2004 04:04 PM
Don't forget to account for dividends when calculating your returns.

Offshoring pays...CEOs

Offshoring pays...CEOs 08/31/2004 03:08 PM
Study finds that CEOs at 50 leaders in sending U.S. jobs overseas got a 46 percent raise. CEOs in general got 9 percent.

Census: It Pays to Be a Man in Most Jobs
(AP)

Census: It Pays to Be a Man in Most Jobs
(AP) 06/03/2004 06:40 PM
AP - If a woman wants to make more money than a man, her job options are severely limited. She could clean up hazardous waste. Or install telecommunications lines. But not much else. The Census Bureau compiled statistics on hundreds of job categories from its 2000 headcount and found just five where women typically earn at least as much as men.

Microsoft pays Gateway to go away

Microsoft pays Gateway to go away 04/11/2005 10:49 AM
Legal action settled

Outsourcing Pays Off at Home

Outsourcing Pays Off at Home 08/23/2004 02:34 PM
Sure, outsourcing lowers a firm's costs, but it also drives prices lower and stimulates job growth.

For CEOs, offshoring pays

For CEOs, offshoring pays 08/31/2004 05:07 PM
U.S. companies that send the most jobs overseas handsomely reward their CEOs, a new study says.
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Update for Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP
5.1 (KB842773)

Update for Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP
5.1 (KB842773) 08/27/2004 01:58 PM

Update for Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) 2

Update for Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) 2 08/14/2004 01:39 PM
This update helps resolve an issue with Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773) where the BITS 2.0 service wrote an invalid value in the FilesNotToBackup registry key. This invalid value may cause backup applications to fail or incorrectly exclude files from backup. This update changes the registry value so the backup applications are not affected.

Download: Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 (KB883357)
View: Knowledge Base Article

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Update for Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 (KB883357)

Update for Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 (KB883357) 08/15/2004 10:58 PM
This update helps resolve an issue with Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773) where the BITS 2.0 service wrote an invalid value in the FilesNotToBackup registry key. This invalid value may cause backup applications to fail or incorrectly exclude files from backup. This update changes the registry value so the backup applications are not affected.

10.3: Force Software Update to display
installed updates

10.3: Force Software Update to display
installed updates 10/29/2003 12:32 PM
After installing OS X 10.3 and various software updates (Keynote, iSync) which were made availabe by Apple after 10.3, I found out that the installed updates were not displayed in the Software Update PrefPane. I thought "Oh n...

Panther Successfully Installed On Athlon
PC

Panther Successfully Installed On Athlon
PC 05/20/2004 11:22 AM
Mac Observer May 20 2004 3:13PM GMT

Media failed to find facts behind Bush's
service record

Media failed to find facts behind Bush's
service record 09/09/2004 06:49 PM
Media failed to find facts behind Bush's service record .. a look at how the media .. months

suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-banal11.html
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Get the Last Service Pack Installed
Information

Get the Last Service Pack Installed
Information 05/22/2004 11:10 PM

Service provides self background checks

Service provides self background checks 02/16/2004 05:30 PM
CNN Feb 16 2004 8:22PM GMT

ECT’s INtellECT® Intelligent Network
Utilized by Leading Scandinavian Mobile
Service Provider for Mobile Office and
the Ring Back Tone Service

ECT’s INtellECT® Intelligent Network
Utilized by Leading Scandinavian Mobile
Service Provider for Mobile Office and
the Ring Back Tone Service 12/19/2004 03:09 PM
Yet another Scandinavian mobile service provider has chosen ECT solutions for two new innovative mobile value-added services – the ECT Mobile Office and the ECT Ring Back Tone Service. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Intelligent Assistance launches product
support service

Intelligent Assistance launches product
support service 11/18/2003 08:06 AM
Intelligent Assistance Inc. -- a developer of real-time, intelligent multimedia coaching and support tools for digital media artists and content creators -- has announced Assistance on Demand, an online, on-demand service that provides digital media artists and content creators with point-of-need product support and technical guidance in real time.

UPDATE: Failed terrorism attempt on
recent flight?

UPDATE: Failed terrorism attempt on
recent flight? 07/26/2004 03:50 PM
It's been debunked by Snopes

Spencer Cross sez: "[T]he Annie Jacobsen article that you mentioned today has become quite a big deal, and the debate is far wider than just Snopes. Salon has an excellent followup to it that I thought you might want to read. The article has also been picked up and embellished by a number of "fair and balanced" media outlets. Likewise, "in an effort to provide the most up-to-date information," WWWS is now linking to several articles that support Jacobsen's relentless and unapologetic alarmism, but has failed to link anything on the other side of the debate. I would encourage people to e-mail the editors at WomensWallStreet.com and let them know what they think about their journalistic integrity: editors@womenswallstreet.co m.

First hand report from a writer for Women's Wall Street about her experience on a flight from Detroit to LA. Apparently a group of 14 men on the plane kept going into the restrooms and signaling each other. Hard to say what really happened, and it could have been perfectly innocent, but it makes for interesting reading.

The man in the yellow T-shirt got out of his seat and went to the lavatory at the front of coach -- taking his full McDonald's bag with him. When he came out of the lavatory he still had the McDonald's bag, but it was now almost empty. He walked down the aisle to the back of the plane, still holding the bag. When he passed two of the men sitting mid-cabin, he gave a thumbs-up sign. When he returned to his seat, he no longer had the McDonald's bag... ...Then another man from the group stood up and took something from his carry-on in the overhead bin. It was about a foot long and was rolled in cloth. He headed toward the back of the cabin with the object... ... The last man came out of the bathroom, and as he passed the man in the yellow shirt he ran his forefinger across his neck and mouthed the word 'No.'

One possibility -- the men were sharing food, and some of the food was spoiled, so they threw it away in the restrooms. Link (Thanks, Mike!)

Yahoo launches money transfer service

Yahoo launches money transfer service 12/16/2003 03:14 AM
iafrica.com Dec 16 2003 1:54AM ET

TiVo Unveils Portable Transfer Service
(AP)

TiVo Unveils Portable Transfer Service
(AP) 01/03/2005 01:22 AM
AP - TiVo Inc. pioneered digital video recording as a new way of watching television — when you want it. Now it could be TV where you want it, too.

TiVo Unveils Portable Transfer Service

TiVo Unveils Portable Transfer Service 01/03/2005 03:05 AM
AP via Newsday Jan 3 2005 7:02AM GMT

Checking to See if the Windows Update is
Installed

Checking to See if the Windows Update is
Installed 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

Verifying the USB Driver Update is
Installed on Windows XP

Verifying the USB Driver Update is
Installed on Windows XP 09/18/2004 03:21 PM

AOL updates its journal service

AOL updates its journal service 04/27/2004 10:09 AM
New features let members add to their Web logs via instant message or text message. Diarists can also ask to receive alerts whenever readers add comments to their journals.

New service for smartphones gives news
updates

New service for smartphones gives news
updates 05/24/2004 09:15 AM
SiliconValley.com May 24 2004 1:28PM GMT

Verizon updates wireless Internet
service

Verizon updates wireless Internet
service 07/02/2004 04:53 AM
Hydrogenguide.com - Fri Jul 2, 01:39 am GMT

Microsoft Updates Service Pack Beta

Microsoft Updates Service Pack Beta 04/09/2004 06:34 PM

Safeway OKs Morrison bid; IBM to send
U.S. jobs to Asia; Yahoo! in global
money transfer service

Safeway OKs Morrison bid; IBM to send
U.S. jobs to Asia; Yahoo! in global
money transfer service 12/15/2003 02:11 PM
Forbes Dec 15 2003 1:21PM ET

Apple Adds Exclusives, Updates .Mac
Service Features

Apple Adds Exclusives, Updates .Mac
Service Features 05/18/2004 03:08 AM
By MacNN (via MyAppleMenu)

Working with CSS Background Images-Part
3: Creating Background Images with a
Drop Shadow

Working with CSS Background Images-Part
3: Creating Background Images with a
Drop Shadow 04/18/2005 07:15 PM
Create cool background images in Fireworks and put them in your pages with Dreamweaver.

Google updates mapping service and
expands video search

Google updates mapping service and
expands video search 04/05/2005 12:12 PM
Google Maps now includes satellite imagery, and Google's video search will soon start taking user submissions.

MP calls for denial of service attack
updates to Computer Misuse Act

MP calls for denial of service attack
updates to Computer Misuse Act 04/07/2005 01:18 PM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 7 2005 4:25PM GMT

TiVo unveils portable transfer service
Troops stationed in Iraq turn to gaming
Internet sites allow

TiVo unveils portable transfer service
Troops stationed in Iraq turn to gaming
Internet sites allow 01/03/2005 03:06 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Mon Jan 3, 06:32 am GMT

IMPORTANT: Norton Antivirus Live Update
vs. Intelligent Updater

IMPORTANT: Norton Antivirus Live Update
vs. Intelligent Updater 07/25/2004 01:08 AM

REVIEW: 'Snake Eater' combines Rambo,
007 TiVo unveils portable transfer
service Court rules on musi

REVIEW: 'Snake Eater' combines Rambo,
007 TiVo unveils portable transfer
service Court rules on musi 01/05/2005 03:31 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Jan 5, 12:39 am GMT

'Spam King' to stop invading computers
TiVo unveils portable transfer service
Tech gadget show featu

'Spam King' to stop invading computers
TiVo unveils portable transfer service
Tech gadget show featu 01/05/2005 03:31 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Jan 5, 06:40 am GMT

Update on security updates

Update on security updates 12/30/2003 01:21 AM
Hallelujah! If everything went as planned, Microsoft should this week be announcing a “security” CD for those folks without broadband access to the update Web site or simply for those who don’t trust any software download. Late last week as we went to press, the final release candidate was getting approved by the beta testers.

Standards Compliancy Pays Off Again

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