Yes, I think parking lots are the single most likely place for anyone, deaf or not, to be clipped by a silent car. I was almost clipped when a Prius suddenly started backing up as I was walking along the parked cars.
But this could be fixed by requiring a 'backup beeper'
Wouldn't giving Facebook your username and password be a violation of the following clause from Gmail's TOS?
# Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose or transfer any Gmail account
or perhaps (since contacts include email addresses)
Generate or facilitate unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). Such activity includes, but is not limited to
... # data mining any web property (including Google) to find email addresses
... # selling, exchanging or distributing to a third party the email addresses of any person without such person's knowing and continued consent to such disclosure
Citizen's United is not a citizen, nor even a person and it has no innate rights that have not been granted to it.
Corporations should not have the same rights as people. They do not have the same responsibilities, duties or obligations as people. Given them the same rights as people makes them *better* than people.
For example, most corporate illegal activity is punished mainly by some kind of mere financial penalty. Contempt of court? $10,000 fine. If a person is in contempt, they can be and are sent to jail, completely disrupting their lives until they stop their contempt, for example, refusing to testify, which is a much more severe penalty than mere cash.
Pilots have extensive training and "know what they are doing", yet checklists are part of standard safety policies. Why? Because checklists save lives.
Does it matter if only 1 person a year dies from having a stupid mistake, if it happens to *you*, while you are having some silly routine procedure happen? Do you want to be the one who dies having an MRI because someone forgot to ask if you had any metal implants?
We could just say that malpractice judgments will incent people to do the right thing.. hey, wait... maybe it is!
If you read the article, it claims that the issue is the Red Flags rule, which is aimed at preventing *misuse* of identification information while accessing services rather than theft of identification from their systems.
This definitely should apply to the medical industry. Or have you not yet heard of people not only getting billed for medical procedures that they have not had, but simultaneously having their medical history corrupted and having their insurance history mangled as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft#Medical_identity_theft
It seems in the very beginning of the clip that there was not enough upward force on the cable for a proper lift off. The launch release caused the payload to immediately swing like a pendulum and there was not enough launch height for the amount of vertical lift being applied to avoid the payload swinging into the ground.
I'm assuming that the actual near vertical crash was due to some kind of abort procedure initiated as a result of the payload being dragged across the ground because there was an (off screen) catastrophic balloon failure at that point.
Right. They've had 20 years since Flight 9 to do some studies and develop flight protocols for dealing with volcanic ash. The BBC even had an interview with a guy who had invented some kind of ash monitor that could mounted at each engine in order to monitor the conditions being encountered (since the ash cloud is so hard to detect).
Unfortunately studies would cost money and the airlines had a plan: avoidance! We'll fly around any erupting volcanoes!
They figured that was a heck of a lot cheaper than some studies and additional equipment on every plane.
Now they know that avoiding Europe is just a tad more expensive than a few studies.
The MS Word grammar checker is constantly trying to ruin perfectly good text by suggesting totally bogus changes. One of the more bogus class of proposals is "Subject-Verb agreement". It is incapable of correctly determining the subject, or its plurality in most sentences that multiple nouns in them.
Exactly. By claiming that it's more secure all they have done is made it that much harder for you, the customer, to be protected when you do get defrauded. I don't trust that its secure so I won't use it.
You are misreading the statistics. If only one in a few thousand computers matches yours, then you are very trackable. Your computer sticks out in a crowd. You want to be as close to 1:1 as you can get, as in, my computer looks like every other computer.
The problem is your data is ambiguous. To get the behavior you want you should have quotes around text fields, or you need to use a decent program like OO that provides you a dialog when you open this file where you can choose the column data type. The fact that the programs heuristically "guess" what the field contains based upon its contents will not save you from ambiguous data.
and presumably it doesn't measure the accuracy of the blacklist either... as in whether or not the URLs on the blacklist A) shouldn't be there but are or B) should be there but aren't.
Well.. at one time it did work that way. I.e. you click through a Google news result and get a warning that it was a subscription site and would you enter your password or sign up.
But I don't see that much (if at all) any more in my search results, because there's always a free source, and those kinds of results just piss me off.
From blocking as "possible spam" me@comcast.net from sending a nearly empty email containing just one URL to me@work.com where I want to use it. WTF?
To this week's episode where Comcast webmail was totally foobar/frozen after half loading, until I purged every one of the dozen or more comcast related cookies from my browser. They apparently trust the data the client gives them too much, and expect all these cookies to have consistent state.
Nor do the courts treat corporations as people, thus corporations have an unfair advantage.
If a person refuses to comply with a subpoena the court can charge you with contempt and then put you in jail until you comply. While in jail you cannot earn money, you cannot conduct business, etc.
If a corporation refuses to comply with a subpoena the court can charge it with contempt and then impose a daily fine until they comply. While being fined, they continue to earn money, probably much more than the fine. While being fined, they continue to conduct business as usual.
How is this fair? This is plutocracy, where having enough money means you can break any rules you want.
Fines do not make corporations accountable to the law. And when juries try to impose a fine large enough to attempt to penalize corporations equivalently, the courts throw those penalties out.
Ironically enough, the word of law and the concept of precedence are used most in our lowest courts, with our highest courts being based more and more off of subjective factors. The inconsistency in rulings has long been an indicator of this.
It has always been this way. Not "more and more". Lower courts rule based on precedent almost 100%. Bucking the precedent will just get the ruling overturned on appeal almost automatically. Higher courts are there to fix mistakes and/or to overturn a precedent that over time has shown itself to be deficient. You wouldn't need higher courts merely to fix mistakes, there would be other, simpler options.
Why on earth would thousands (potentially millions) of individuals download high-bandwidth material over separate, contending, low-bandwidth links, when much of that same material is freely broadcast through the air they breathe? It doesn't make very good engineering sense. More to the point, it doesn't make good economic or business sense.
Right, and this whole switch to DTV was a lark. Broadcasting through the air makes no sense at all. Not when there's no longer 3 channels with 30% of TV watchers watching each.
Or didn't you notice that the switch to DTV involved moving broadcasts to a crappy piece of spectrum? The old spectrum was too valuable to waste on TV.
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Sometimes it's cheaper not to build it in the first place.
It was the last mission for THAT shuttle.
It's being decommissioned now and will never go back to space.
Plus Spline curves are much more advanced that Manhattan geometry.
Yes,
I think parking lots are the single most likely place for anyone, deaf or not, to be clipped by a silent car.
I was almost clipped when a Prius suddenly started backing up as I was walking along the parked cars.
But this could be fixed by requiring a 'backup beeper'
Not if you do it in the depths of winter, or even during a heat wave.
Either one just let's Mother Nature have her way with all the tool users with electric tools.
Wouldn't giving Facebook your username and password be a violation of the following clause from Gmail's TOS?
# Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose or transfer any Gmail account
or perhaps (since contacts include email addresses)
Generate or facilitate unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). Such activity includes, but is not limited to
...
# data mining any web property (including Google) to find email addresses
...
# selling, exchanging or distributing to a third party the email addresses of any person without such person's knowing and continued consent to such disclosure
That's right.
They are still worried about those that opt out of the back scatter machine rather than screening cargo properly.
Citizen's United is not a citizen, nor even a person and it has no innate rights that have not been granted to it.
Corporations should not have the same rights as people. They do not have the same responsibilities, duties or obligations as people.
Given them the same rights as people makes them *better* than people.
For example, most corporate illegal activity is punished mainly by some kind of mere financial penalty. Contempt of court? $10,000 fine.
If a person is in contempt, they can be and are sent to jail, completely disrupting their lives until they stop their contempt, for example, refusing to testify, which is a much more severe penalty than mere cash.
Pilots have extensive training and "know what they are doing", yet checklists are part of standard safety policies. Why? Because checklists save lives.
Does it matter if only 1 person a year dies from having a stupid mistake, if it happens to *you*, while you are having some silly routine procedure happen? Do you want to be the one who dies having an MRI because someone forgot to ask if you had any metal implants?
We could just say that malpractice judgments will incent people to do the right thing.. hey, wait...
maybe it is!
If you read the article, it claims that the issue is the Red Flags rule, which is aimed at preventing *misuse* of identification information while accessing services rather than theft of identification from their systems.
This definitely should apply to the medical industry. Or have you not yet heard of people not only getting billed for medical procedures that they have not had, but simultaneously having their medical history corrupted and having their insurance history mangled as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft#Medical_identity_theft
It seems in the very beginning of the clip that there was not enough upward force on the cable for a proper lift off. The launch release caused the payload to immediately swing like a pendulum and there was not enough launch height for the amount of vertical lift being applied to avoid the payload swinging into the ground.
I'm assuming that the actual near vertical crash was due to some kind of abort procedure initiated as a result of the payload being dragged across the ground because there was an (off screen) catastrophic balloon failure at that point.
Right. They've had 20 years since Flight 9 to do some studies and develop flight protocols for dealing with volcanic ash.
The BBC even had an interview with a guy who had invented some kind of ash monitor that could mounted at each engine in order to monitor the conditions being encountered (since the ash cloud is so hard to detect).
Unfortunately studies would cost money and the airlines had a plan: avoidance! We'll fly around any erupting volcanoes!
They figured that was a heck of a lot cheaper than some studies and additional equipment on every plane.
Now they know that avoiding Europe is just a tad more expensive than a few studies.
Perhaps they'll be done now.
Definitely.
The MS Word grammar checker is constantly trying to ruin perfectly good text by suggesting totally bogus changes.
One of the more bogus class of proposals is "Subject-Verb agreement". It is incapable of correctly determining the subject, or its plurality in most sentences that multiple nouns in them.
Yep.
Any system where you enter re-usable authentication credentials is a system that you have just enabled to pretend to be you.
Exactly.
By claiming that it's more secure all they have done is made it that much harder for you, the customer, to be protected when you do get defrauded. I don't trust that its secure so I won't use it.
Pseudo-security => All Pain, No Gain.
You are misreading the statistics. If only one in a few thousand computers matches yours, then you are very trackable. Your computer sticks out in a crowd. You want to be as close to 1:1 as you can get, as in, my computer looks like every other computer.
It's called "Deferred Compensation" and it's all the rage in the C-Suite.
The problem is your data is ambiguous.
To get the behavior you want you should have quotes around text fields, or you need to use a decent program like OO that provides you a dialog when you open this file where you can choose the column data type.
The fact that the programs heuristically "guess" what the field contains based upon its contents will not save you from ambiguous data.
and presumably it doesn't measure the accuracy of the blacklist either... as in whether or not the URLs on the blacklist A) shouldn't be there but are or B) should be there but aren't.
Well.. at one time it did work that way. I.e. you click through a Google news result and get a warning that it was a subscription site and would you enter your password or sign up.
But I don't see that much (if at all) any more in my search results, because there's always a free source, and those kinds of results just piss me off.
The whole planet-eating-micro-black-hole thing was already covered in David Brin's _Earth_.
Yep. Comcast does few things correctly.
From blocking as "possible spam" me@comcast.net from sending a nearly empty email containing just one URL to me@work.com where I want to use it. WTF?
To this week's episode where Comcast webmail was totally foobar/frozen after half loading, until I purged every one of the dozen or more comcast related cookies from my browser. They apparently trust the data the client gives them too much, and expect all these cookies to have consistent state.
Nor do the courts treat corporations as people, thus corporations have an unfair advantage.
If a person refuses to comply with a subpoena the court can charge you with contempt and then put you in jail until you comply.
While in jail you cannot earn money, you cannot conduct business, etc.
If a corporation refuses to comply with a subpoena the court can charge it with contempt and then impose a daily fine until they comply.
While being fined, they continue to earn money, probably much more than the fine.
While being fined, they continue to conduct business as usual.
How is this fair? This is plutocracy, where having enough money means you can break any rules you want.
Fines do not make corporations accountable to the law. And when juries try to impose a fine large enough to attempt to penalize corporations equivalently, the courts throw those penalties out.
Ironically enough, the word of law and the concept of precedence are used most in our lowest courts, with our highest courts being based more and more off of subjective factors. The inconsistency in rulings has long been an indicator of this.
It has always been this way. Not "more and more". Lower courts rule based on precedent almost 100%. Bucking the precedent will just get the ruling overturned on appeal almost automatically. Higher courts are there to fix mistakes and/or to overturn a precedent that over time has shown itself to be deficient. You wouldn't need higher courts merely to fix mistakes, there would be other, simpler options.
Why on earth would thousands (potentially millions) of individuals download high-bandwidth material over separate, contending, low-bandwidth links, when much of that same material is freely broadcast through the air they breathe? It doesn't make very good engineering sense. More to the point, it doesn't make good economic or business sense.
Right, and this whole switch to DTV was a lark. Broadcasting through the air makes no sense at all. Not when there's no longer 3 channels with 30% of TV watchers watching each. Or didn't you notice that the switch to DTV involved moving broadcasts to a crappy piece of spectrum? The old spectrum was too valuable to waste on TV.