Means for ends

Grok Headline matches for Means for ends

Looking Past Means, Focusing on Ends in
Iraq (Los Angeles Times)

Looking Past Means, Focusing on Ends in
Iraq (Los Angeles Times) 04/14/2004 05:11 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — For all the attention President Bush devoted to the war in Iraq at his news conference Tuesday night, his message boiled down to three words: Stay the course.

Green Means Go

Green Means Go 11/07/2003 08:48 AM
Andrew Gumbel has an article at The Independent titled, "Infra-red device gives drivers the green light." Basically, he reports on the sale (still legal at the moment) of Mobile Infra-Red Transmitters, little boxes that plug into your car's cigarette lighter, giving you the power to change (certain) red lights to green. Washington Post reported on it last Friday. With more Googling, I found out MIRTs were reported on earlier than Halloween even.

Living Below Your Means

Living Below Your Means 02/12/2004 03:39 PM
Money-saving tips from your friendly pharmacist.

IBM minimizing ROI - what it means to
you

IBM minimizing ROI - what it means to
you 11/04/2003 12:09 PM
Reader revolt

Politics by other means

Politics by other means 02/10/2004 06:47 AM
The Internet may have made Howard Dean, but Dean didn't make the Net -- and his campaign's woes don't faze digital democracy's true believers.

La La means I love you.............

La La means I love you............. 08/07/2004 01:53 AM
I love last minute plans because often times those are the best ones! I'm headed to LA tomorrow for a...

"It has by no means been proven"

"It has by no means been proven" 09/21/2004 02:33 AM

It has by no means been proven

It has by no means been proven 09/20/2004 03:16 AM
What fucking morons .. Orcinus

dneiwert.blogspot.com/archives/2004_09_19_dneiwert_archive.h tml#109561579200025548
track this site | 3 links

Wi-Fi Means: Never Having to Say "I'm
Not Working"

Wi-Fi Means: Never Having to Say "I'm
Not Working" 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
The New York Times offers this cheery piece that suggests you can still ignore your kids while in the same room [reg. required]: I'm sounding cynical, but this article does extol the virtues of being able to be connected all of the time and work all of the time, even when in physical proximity to your family. Seriously, however, the notion that you can get necessary work done and not have to hole yourself up in a basement or at a specific location is one of the great benefits of a home wireless network. Oddly, the piece opens looking at Oren Michels, identifying him as the president of a human resources benefits administration firm. I knew that name, so I perform a Google search, and find that he is also president and CEO of WiFinder, a Wi-Fi directory site. (Disclosure: I'm the senior editor at JiWire, an editorial and directory site focused on wireless that competes for ad/sponsor dollars with WiFinder.) I shot a note to Oren to confirm that he was still in that role at WiFinder, which he is. Like WiFinder's chairman and founder Scott Rafer, Oren wears a few hats. My point here is not that it's odd that Oren has multiple jobs, but rather it's an odd choice of the reporter to not mention that Oren Michels is the head of a company that's devoted to spreading information about Wi-Fi. It's not bias; it's just a strange omission, n'est c'est pas?...

"If _, that means the terrorists have
already won!"

"If _, that means the terrorists have
already won!" 07/01/2004 03:35 PM

What It Really Means to Save

What It Really Means to Save 05/25/2004 02:43 PM
A simple story from the other side of the world shows how everyday dreams come true.

Dell Means Business

Dell Means Business 05/10/2004 05:51 AM
With the IT market on the rebound, Dell faces the challenge of keeping prices down while providing innovation with a research and development budget that is only 10 percent that of competitor IBM.

This 3G phone means business

This 3G phone means business 02/05/2005 09:51 PM
Electric New Paper Feb 4 2005 5:12PM GMT

"World War IV: How It Started, What It
Means, and Why We Have to Win"

"World War IV: How It Started, What It
Means, and Why We Have to Win" 08/17/2004 03:41 AM

Peoplesoft: No means no (TheDeal.com)

Peoplesoft: No means no (TheDeal.com) 05/27/2004 04:48 AM
TheDeal.com - The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based business software developer rejects Oracle's fourth bid, this time $7.7 billion.

Unbreakable means Hackable

Unbreakable means Hackable 12/08/2003 03:29 PM
Apparently, Oracle isn't as "unbreakable" as we've been brainwashed led to believe. Oracle confirmed that a variety of its server products could be tampered with through vulnerabilities via the OpenSSL protocol. The flaws could potentially open the door for a remote hacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, execute arbitrary code, and gain access privileges. Read all about it in Oracle Issues High-Severity Vulnerability Warning. I always wonder if vendors will just give up someday, realizing that no product is...

A consideration of what it means to be
secure

A consideration of what it means to be
secure 07/23/2004 09:43 AM

Ma Bell Means Business?

Ma Bell Means Business? 07/22/2004 01:13 PM
The telephone provider focuses on declining business customers.

Inflammable Means Flammable?

Inflammable Means Flammable? 01/07/2004 05:19 PM
Thanks to John C. Welch, everything you need to know about Mac OS X's recently-ballyhooed "DHCP Vulnerability".

What Google's Gmail Means for the Web

What Google's Gmail Means for the Web 05/03/2004 03:44 AM
Techfocus May 3 2004 7:41AM GMT

What a Weak Dollar Means

What a Weak Dollar Means 04/28/2004 01:10 PM
A weak dollar can actually be good for many American companies.

Pricing software by means

Pricing software by means 01/09/2004 09:51 PM

Among the many responses to my post on piracy was one which suggested I price my software by country. The general idea is that it's unfair that someone in the United States is charged the same price as someone in, say, Russia, where economic conditions are much harsher.

I have to say that I agree with this sentiment. Russia isn't such a warez capital because it's a dishonest country - it's a country with many skilled people thrown into chaotic times. In order for some of them to maintain these skills, they may need to stay up-to-date with the latest software. But in order to be ethical, they need to shell out a week's pay to register one measly program.

I've actually talked with other shareware authors about this in the past, and a number of them shared my belief that charging a lower price in certain countries would be a better way to do business. Several of us discussed ways to handle this, but in the end it was decided that it would be so hard to manage that it wouldn't be feasible. Verifying the country of origin and weeding out fraud would simply require too much time. There are ways to automate this, of course, but most of us need to rely on third-party ordering services so we don't have much control over the purchasing process - so it would be up to us to handle the extra work.

Most shareware companies are one-person outfits such as my own, and we all find it difficult to balance the many demands of running our businesses. We tend to shy away from anything that's time-consuming simply because we often have no time left at the end of the day. In my case, I'm not going to implement something if it means I have less time to spend with my kids.

One possible solution is to skip charging by country and instead ask each customer to pay what s/he believes the software is worth. A minimum price would be required to make sure the order processing fees are covered, but the final price would be determined by the customer. This sidesteps the need for any verification, and could potentially even increase earnings since I'd get orders from those who previously couldn't afford our software.

On the surface I really like this idea, but the more you think about it the more it seems just as problematic. First there's the fear factor: I rely on software sales to feed my family, so I'm scared to try such a thing. But even if I ignore this (not to mention the issues involving third-party ordering services), there are still a boatload of issues involving corporate sales, etc., that would eat away at my time.

I'd like to hear other thoughts on this so I've enabled comments for this post. However, I'm going to disable them once the comment spammers hit, so if you have your own blog you'd be better off posting there and sending a trackback ping.

BTW, I should add that my posting about this does NOT mean that I'm about to implement such a system, since the ordering services for both TopStyle and FeedDemon are already in place. I'm simply thinking out loud about how such a system might work in case I want to try it with future software.

What the Attack on Abu Ghraib Means

What the Attack on Abu Ghraib Means 04/04/2005 12:46 PM
As I mentioned earlier, the attack on Abu Ghraib is proof that al Qaeda is now officially in Iraq.  The execution followed a classic al Qaeda pattern.  Here are some things that the press missed in the little coverage they provided:

• The level of sophistication.  Swarming and feints.
• Large number of attackers (50).
• Low casualties for attackers killed (~1 maybe).
• No prior intelligence on a large, well planned attack of this size.
• Weapons mix:  RPGs, VBIEDs, and small arms.

This is problematic.  This attack demonstrates that Al Qaeda can now mount an attack of the size and sophistication necessary to over-run a large number of US troops.An over-run could produce significant US casualties and captives.

This Means War... or at least a good
noogy-ing!

This Means War... or at least a good
noogy-ing! 01/18/2004 08:08 AM

emptybottle.org/glass/2004/01/this_means_war_or_at_least_a_good_noo gying.php
track this site | 6 links

Shark Tank: So THAT'S what it means

Shark Tank: So THAT'S what it means 03/23/2005 05:33 PM
This IT shop has a chargeback system, billing other departments for the amount of disk space they use. But this user wants to know: What day is disk usage calculated?

No visible means of support

No visible means of support 12/31/2003 12:01 PM
“I just got carried away and stared making stuff,” said Byrne. “It communicates within certain limited parameters really well and very easily. The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use. I learned it in a few hours, and that’s the idea. It’s not a serious statement about anything.”

Dell means business with new PCs

Dell means business with new PCs 02/01/2005 09:06 PM
Line of six new office models, including five notebooks and a desktop, continues computing titan's Intel-only policy.

On e-mail as a means of exchange...

On e-mail as a means of exchange... 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

I've had lots of conversations over the last few years about ways in which rising marginal cost could deal with grotesque abuses of online services. There are probably a dozen posts in this blog about that subject alone. Now the obvious example of a place where this kind of thing has been proposed has been e-mail - people have been talking about ways to get people to pay for e-mail "stamps" for years as a possible means of avoiding spam. Bill Gates has proposed another version of this scheme recently. His idea - ten-second pieces of computing time on the machine that sends the mail being given to some worthy cause (or to just solve some abstract puzzle). This would - apparently - be a gesture of good faith on the part of the sender that a spammer couldn't possible match.

Now, my personal opinions about rising marginal costs have mainly been about how to deal with noise, distance and abuse in online communities. I once touched on the issue in connection with e-mail (only because e-mail was a suitable jumping off point) and ended up in an almighty fight with Cory Doctorow about it. Since that time, I'm still of the opinion that exponential graphs of effort or diminishing causality over space or increasing marginal costs (all features of the real-world) still have a role to play in how we solve gross abuses online. On the other hand I've seen no evidence that there's a model that works particularly well with regards to e-mail. Certainly my experience of sending the fifty or sixty e-mails I send from my personal account a day (and the other fifty or sixty that I send at work) wouldn't be radically improved by having my various computers churn through puzzles for twenty minutes a day.

With regards to the 1p-per-e-mail approach - I'm still of the opinion that a more successful version would be about the redistribution of money rather than the paying of it. What if the person you sent your e-mail to got the 1p you spent to send it to them and could then use that penny to send an e-mail in turn to whosoever they wanted. In those circumstances, most users (who get as much e-mail as they send) would be financially unaffected, the spammed would get a financial reward for all the rubbish they were forced to consume (there might even be a legitimate business model in collecting spam) and the spammers would end up paying much much more money than before.

This is not a new idea either, and nor do I think it's a particularly practical one, but it does present some interesting opportunities to think about e-mail in very different (ludicrous?) ways - perhaps eventually even as a unit of currency that you write upon and distribute. After all noted currency is only an abstraction of value written on a rectangular piece of paper - why shouldn't our future currency be based upon the transactions of plain text files...

Read the comments

Diet Sprite Means Zero to Coke

Diet Sprite Means Zero to Coke 09/07/2004 12:19 PM
Will the beverage's new name increase its value to calorie counters?

Means-test for school bus passes

Means-test for school bus passes 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
A draft school transport bill proposes that better-off families should pay for home-to-school transport.

Across America, War Means Jobs
(washingtonpost.com)

Across America, War Means Jobs
(washingtonpost.com) 05/11/2004 09:08 AM
washingtonpost.com - FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- Along a quiet strip of gray corrugated metal buildings, across the street from a La-Z-Boy distribution center, Gary Allen and his ever-expanding crew are running one of the most urgent operations of the Iraq war.

Better security means lower TCO for Win
2003 - MS

Better security means lower TCO for Win
2003 - MS 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Patching pain relief

WiFi Criminal Tracked Down Via Other
Means

WiFi Criminal Tracked Down Via Other
Means 06/26/2004 01:19 AM
A few weeks ago we linked to an article from someone freaking out that (gasp!) a virus writer could release a virus from an unsecured WiFi access point and no one would ever be able to track him down. This is a bogus complaint. Most criminals try not to leave a trace of where they came from, and that's what real detective/forensics work is about: tracking them down. So, just because you can't figure out who they were because they were on an access point, you can still get clues, and let traditional detective work take over. That appears to be exactly what the FBI did to track down an online extortionist who used unsecured WiFi access points to secretly send out his demands. The FBI used other clues to figure out who the guy was and caught him that way. It's not clear why some computer security people seem to think that the only clues to computer crimes must also be on the computer.

Understanding what Reciprocal Linking
means

Understanding what Reciprocal Linking
means 05/18/2004 05:58 PM
WebDevInfo May 18 2004 9:09PM GMT

What 2007 means to your data center

What 2007 means to your data center 06/12/2004 03:38 PM
Part I: The SMP revival

Mobility means more billable time

Mobility means more billable time 05/04/2004 06:25 AM
Personal Computer World May 4 2004 10:55AM GMT

Porn is just a means of reaching our
goals.

Porn is just a means of reaching our
goals. 07/08/2004 10:09 PM
Envir opornoshockrockers!!! Ellingsen claims the couple performed the surprise sex stunt during a set by the controversial band The Cumshots "actually to draw attention to the rain forests, which are in the process of disappearing." (NSFW, maybe, and via The Spoonbender)

With services, Dell means business

With services, Dell means business 11/18/2003 07:47 PM
ZDNet Nov 18 2003 6:48PM ET

What Microsoft's code leak means to you
and me

What Microsoft's code leak means to you
and me 02/15/2004 10:28 PM
ZDNet Feb 16 2004 2:15AM GMT
Grok Description matches for Means for ends
GrokA matches for Means for ends

Means for ends

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: