Better yet, what happens when somone who is a fraudster figures out how to beat the voice analysis? Will adjusters just look at the test and say: Ok you passed, heres your money. "And that ming vase I had in the trunk was totally destroyed, and i threw out the fragments, yeah thats it...." Lie detectors arent allowed in court because people can beat them if they are properly trained.
Most of the time, the accusations were made by women, or people looking to clear their "good name" by accusing others of "hexing" them into doing evil deeds.
Actually symmantec says that the virus will also ddos the windows update server if its august OR after the 15th of the month. So since its august, its probably much more intense than a usual slashdotting considering the amount of people with this virus
In our school district they could only afford 1 video camera, so they put boxes with one way mirrors and blinking red lights in them so that the students would think there were cameras. The actual camera was only used on buses with severe discipline problems, which was aparantly not us. (although we did manage to get 13 bus drivers in 1 year)
No, but firestone is the exclusive provider to ford for tires (dont know if thats still true after the rollover recall, but it was for almost 100 years) So ford could say "Firestone tires are the only tires that ford legally alows you to use on ford automobiles, any other tires will result in nonfunction of the car" Ford gets a deal on tires, and maybe a kickback from firestone, everybodys nice and cozy.
Socialism: Gulag, Concentration Camps (then and now), etc
To be fair, thats Communisim combined with socialism. Socialism is an economic system, communism is the pollitical system. And by and large, the pollitical system is responsible for the problems you mention. Extreme forms of any economic system are bad. Pure lassiz faire capitalism leads to monopolies, trusts, and depressions. Pure socialism leads to shortages, corruption and low quality goods. Clearly a mix of socialism and capitalism is the ideal. Government regulation is needed to prevent abuses of the capitalist system, and there are certain industries where only the government is capable of providing equal service for all. For example the interstate highway system is a socialized industry. The benifit to commerce of the government providing this service far outweighs the massive loss its taking in providing it. If the highway system were privatized, owners would need to charge user fees(tolls) that would hinder inter and intra state commerce and genrally hinder transport. So pure capitalism isnt the answer, but neither is pure socialism. What the correct mix is is obviously open for debate, but mindless "capitalism good, socialism evil" will not serve the debate, so please refrain from it.
Heres a question: Since theres so much more dark energy than matter, would it be possible that some future descendants of humans could tap this energy to slow or stop the expansion rate of the universe, or even recreate galaxies using the energy? This might be a good sci-fi novel topic;-)
???? Huh? Mica is about the worst thing you could possibly use for an antenna. Mica is commonly used as a dielectric in capacitors, it is an extremely good insulator as seen with some mica tape stats here
Except the Pyramids were made of nonconducting sandstone and limestone, and were about as good antennas as say, a small mountain. I.e. they block electromagnetic waves rather than concentrating them. Now if the pyramids were made out of aluminum and duct tape, you may have had something.
Except you dont find programmer derogatory, I find the term consumer deragatory. If I called somone an asshole, they would take offense to it, no matter how true the term might be with respect to that person.
I am not a consumer. My sole purpose in life is not to consume. I am not defined by the amount of materials I consume. I am a human being and a citizen, please refer to me as such. thank you.
This has to be the most insigtful comment ive ever seen on slashdot. If you could moderate to +6, it would be. This person is responding to a comment that now is the time to buy SCO (jokingly) because red hat announced they were Suing SCO. The text:
I know you're joking but from a strictly speculator point of view, it might not be a bad idea. I've been watching the SCOX price for a few months and have noticed a tendency of SCO's PR. Whenever the price drops or plateau's, you can count on yet another outrageous PR release from SCO to pump it back up. Before the week is out, expect SCO to make some sort of apocalyptic statement in regard to RedHat.
This was posted on August 4, less than a day later SCO comes out with a new press release.
More likely that marginal bands (those that sell 3000 CD's, the figure mentioned in the article) Are finding alternative ways to sell CD's. I doubt that sales through CDbaby or sales of CD's at concerts, or sales through smaller indy labels make it into the RIAA's figures. Most likely that sales are being lost from RIAA members to smaller labels and alternative forms of CD distribution.
The last time I was in NYC in chinatown, I saw a copy of Men in black II for sale. This was when it was still in the theatre. The hilarious part was the title was "Back in Black" and the description on the back was the description for the x-files movie. The description had clearly been translated into chinese and then back to english(possibly multiple times)
So sell cable uncapped, at one rate. No one sues the phone company when crimes are committed over their network. As long as purchasers understand that they may get lower speeds because of all the users uncapping, its all good.
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Better yet, what happens when somone who is a fraudster figures out how to beat the voice analysis? Will adjusters just look at the test and say: Ok you passed, heres your money. "And that ming vase I had in the trunk was totally destroyed, and i threw out the fragments, yeah thats it...." Lie detectors arent allowed in court because people can beat them if they are properly trained.
H3x0rs?
Actually symmantec says that the virus will also ddos the windows update server if its august OR after the 15th of the month. So since its august, its probably much more intense than a usual slashdotting considering the amount of people with this virus
In our school district they could only afford 1 video camera, so they put boxes with one way mirrors and blinking red lights in them so that the students would think there were cameras. The actual camera was only used on buses with severe discipline problems, which was aparantly not us. (although we did manage to get 13 bus drivers in 1 year)
No, but firestone is the exclusive provider to ford for tires (dont know if thats still true after the rollover recall, but it was for almost 100 years) So ford could say "Firestone tires are the only tires that ford legally alows you to use on ford automobiles, any other tires will result in nonfunction of the car" Ford gets a deal on tires, and maybe a kickback from firestone, everybodys nice and cozy.
Gulag, Concentration Camps (then and now), etc
To be fair, thats Communisim combined with socialism. Socialism is an economic system, communism is the pollitical system. And by and large, the pollitical system is responsible for the problems you mention. Extreme forms of any economic system are bad. Pure lassiz faire capitalism leads to monopolies, trusts, and depressions. Pure socialism leads to shortages, corruption and low quality goods. Clearly a mix of socialism and capitalism is the ideal. Government regulation is needed to prevent abuses of the capitalist system, and there are certain industries where only the government is capable of providing equal service for all. For example the interstate highway system is a socialized industry. The benifit to commerce of the government providing this service far outweighs the massive loss its taking in providing it. If the highway system were privatized, owners would need to charge user fees(tolls) that would hinder inter and intra state commerce and genrally hinder transport. So pure capitalism isnt the answer, but neither is pure socialism. What the correct mix is is obviously open for debate, but mindless "capitalism good, socialism evil" will not serve the debate, so please refrain from it.
Delivering Clue to Users An o'reilly book never written
Heres a question: Since theres so much more dark energy than matter, would it be possible that some future descendants of humans could tap this energy to slow or stop the expansion rate of the universe, or even recreate galaxies using the energy? This might be a good sci-fi novel topic ;-)
???? Huh? Mica is about the worst thing you could possibly use for an antenna. Mica is commonly used as a dielectric in capacitors, it is an extremely good insulator as seen with some mica tape stats here
Except the Pyramids were made of nonconducting sandstone and limestone, and were about as good antennas as say, a small mountain. I.e. they block electromagnetic waves rather than concentrating them. Now if the pyramids were made out of aluminum and duct tape, you may have had something.
Except you dont find programmer derogatory, I find the term consumer deragatory. If I called somone an asshole, they would take offense to it, no matter how true the term might be with respect to that person.
I am not a consumer. My sole purpose in life is not to consume. I am not defined by the amount of materials I consume. I am a human being and a citizen, please refer to me as such. thank you.
I know you're joking but from a strictly speculator point of view, it might not be a bad idea. I've been watching the SCOX price for a few months and have noticed a tendency of SCO's PR. Whenever the price drops or plateau's, you can count on yet another outrageous PR release from SCO to pump it back up. Before the week is out, expect SCO to make some sort of apocalyptic statement in regard to RedHat.
This was posted on August 4, less than a day later SCO comes out with a new press release.
SYSTEM ERROR: Your universe has crashed, please push the reset button to resume operation. Note that all unsaved data will be lost.
More likely that marginal bands (those that sell 3000 CD's, the figure mentioned in the article) Are finding alternative ways to sell CD's. I doubt that sales through CDbaby or sales of CD's at concerts, or sales through smaller indy labels make it into the RIAA's figures. Most likely that sales are being lost from RIAA members to smaller labels and alternative forms of CD distribution.
Since we now know how the universe will end, would it be possible to set up some sort of restaurant there?
The last time I was in NYC in chinatown, I saw a copy of Men in black II for sale. This was when it was still in the theatre. The hilarious part was the title was "Back in Black" and the description on the back was the description for the x-files movie. The description had clearly been translated into chinese and then back to english(possibly multiple times)
So sell cable uncapped, at one rate. No one sues the phone company when crimes are committed over their network. As long as purchasers understand that they may get lower speeds because of all the users uncapping, its all good.
Ok, there are 6 billion people on the planet, but 90% of them cant afford to use a vcr or dvd player, so you cant market to them.
Except for india.
Yeah, she said you had a nano tube
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All the countries with lots of sunshine already provide power to the world, its called middle eastern oil.