I don't know about you, but I'd rather run the risk of being hurt by a terrorist than give up my rights. I know not everyone feels that way.
Besides, isn't the whole point of terrorism to cause fear and turn us against ourselves? At the risk of sounding cliche, this is exactly what they want.
I might be tempted to buy, on DVD, the complete season of "One Day To Defeat The Terrorists By Whispering Everything", the new hit Fox show, if I missed various episodes. Fox might release the DVD set with that in mind.
Dear United States Government, There is currently something that consumers can do for free. I would like to make money off of this instead. Please make this illegal to do for free so I can sell it to them for a profit. Thanks!
Simple solution - add the year of entry to the username.
Last year (when we were on a Novell network) we tacked the graduation year onto the end of their login. Not sure why we don't do that anymore.
"when I was at school, we didn't have the luxury of names! We were just numbers!!!111"
That may be the way we're moving. Kansas this year is implimenting a system to give every student in the state a unique identifier. Perhaps we'll start using that for a login in the years to come.
On the subject of naming your children, parents of the world, please stop using the same first initial for every one of your 12 children! It plays havoc with our school district's login conventions (first initial, last name).
I know, we should change to a first name, last name convention, but I don't get to make those kinds of decisions... yet.
A market that serves creative vision instead of suppressing it. An audience that prizes gameplay over glitz. A business that allows niche product to be commercially successful - not necessarily or even ideally on the same scale as the conventional market, but on a much more modest one: profitability with sales of a few tens of thousands of units, not millions. And, of course - creator control of intellectual property, because creators deserve to own their own work."
'Other companies, apparently, are scared of that.'
I'm not surprised. How long before elected managers start bearing a resemblance to our society's elected officials. I don't want politicians vying fo my vote in the workplace.
I believe the GP here stated 20+Mb as the unatainable broadband that is available overseas. This says "up to 15Mb" for a reasonable price. One step up from that and you're shelling out $200 a month. Looks like a pretty limited availablity as well, only a few select cities with super high pop/sq mi.
{grandparent} The Henrico county residents convinced the school officials that they were entitled to the laptops because their taxes had paid for them in the first place. That's why the purchaser's had to bring proof of residency in order to buy them.
{parent} However, in reality it looks like it happened the other way around. Initially, the sale was announced with no restrictions. Only after locals protested was the sale restricted to residents.
I didn't realize restating a parents post passed as +1 Insightful nowadays.
Apparently the graph + legend is a fixed size. I tried lining up all of the different Skills to see how they compared and the size of the legend squished the graph vertically, causing it to be unreadable. And I hadn't even started to add the Locations. So this graph is useless if you want to compare more than 10 skills/locations at once.
You mean, aside from the fact that the electronic votes could be tallied much quicker? The electronic votes can be submitted and compared against the paper trail a few days or a week later. Delayed verification is still verification.
I just recently transfered my balance from a Chase card I had and closed the account. The reasons for this were twofold:
1. More than once my bill never came in the mail, causing me to be late on a payment. After the first late payment, I was no longer allowed to pay online, so when I didn't recieve a bill after that I had no way of paying on time.
2. I was automatically signed up for the insurance on the card (no payments/interest if you lose your job, etc.). I did not sign up for that and told them to remove the service from my card. Months later, there it was again!
Needless to say, Chase will never get my business again.
It seems to me that most of the devices we have nowadays would have a pretty good power life with current batteries if they didn't have a plethora of "extras." When you combine a phone, PDA, and mp3 player together and then connect it to the internet, you're taking 4 different devices and trying to run them all on the same battery.
IMO, consolidation of devices and extra features that most people can do without are what's causing the energy crunch in small electronics.
That's the basic jist of it. It's not criminal charges, so you're not presumed innocent. You have to prove your innocence to the judge, and even then, if he thinks you're partially responsible, you my need to pay partial damages.
The chances of anyone on a plane even getting to the point where they can make demands is now very slim. The second anyone on a plane starts doing funny stuff now, they get taken down.
The people will police themselves when the law cannot. It's just sad to think that the one true hack that can't be completely controlled is the human one. Social engineering will be around as long as people fail to get a clue.
I believe the idea is that it would be less of a hassle to just go somewhere that has power outlets (their house maybe?). Buying and carrying lots of laptop batteries is neither economical nor "coffee house cool".
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Don't be silly. That's what users are for.
At least, that seems to be the prevailing ideology the past 10 years or so.
Just wait till your users start sending 40MB excel files.
You think teaching a CEO is hard. Try teaching a teacher.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather run the risk of being hurt by a terrorist than give up my rights. I know not everyone feels that way.
Besides, isn't the whole point of terrorism to cause fear and turn us against ourselves? At the risk of sounding cliche, this is exactly what they want.
Dear United States Government,
There is currently something that consumers can do for free. I would like to make money off of this instead. Please make this illegal to do for free so I can sell it to them for a profit.
Thanks!
We do have checks and balances.
They're called Whistleblowers.
Simple solution - add the year of entry to the username.
Last year (when we were on a Novell network) we tacked the graduation year onto the end of their login. Not sure why we don't do that anymore.
"when I was at school, we didn't have the luxury of names! We were just numbers!!!111"
That may be the way we're moving. Kansas this year is implimenting a system to give every student in the state a unique identifier. Perhaps we'll start using that for a login in the years to come.
On the subject of naming your children, parents of the world, please stop using the same first initial for every one of your 12 children! It plays havoc with our school district's login conventions (first initial, last name).
I know, we should change to a first name, last name convention, but I don't get to make those kinds of decisions... yet.
And... a million dollars.
If I look away and then look back really quick, does that count as seeing them in the same place twice?
I'm not surprised. How long before elected managers start bearing a resemblance to our society's elected officials. I don't want politicians vying fo my vote in the workplace.
Ahh! Soda through the nose! Ow ow ow.
I believe the GP here stated 20+Mb as the unatainable broadband that is available overseas. This says "up to 15Mb" for a reasonable price. One step up from that and you're shelling out $200 a month. Looks like a pretty limited availablity as well, only a few select cities with super high pop/sq mi.
I didn't realize restating a parents post passed as +1 Insightful nowadays.
Did you get your stuff back?
Apparently the graph + legend is a fixed size. I tried lining up all of the different Skills to see how they compared and the size of the legend squished the graph vertically, causing it to be unreadable. And I hadn't even started to add the Locations. So this graph is useless if you want to compare more than 10 skills/locations at once.
You mean, aside from the fact that the electronic votes could be tallied much quicker? The electronic votes can be submitted and compared against the paper trail a few days or a week later. Delayed verification is still verification.
The NASA channel.
I just recently transfered my balance from a Chase card I had and closed the account. The reasons for this were twofold:
1. More than once my bill never came in the mail, causing me to be late on a payment. After the first late payment, I was no longer allowed to pay online, so when I didn't recieve a bill after that I had no way of paying on time.
2. I was automatically signed up for the insurance on the card (no payments/interest if you lose your job, etc.). I did not sign up for that and told them to remove the service from my card. Months later, there it was again!
Needless to say, Chase will never get my business again.
It seems to me that most of the devices we have nowadays would have a pretty good power life with current batteries if they didn't have a plethora of "extras." When you combine a phone, PDA, and mp3 player together and then connect it to the internet, you're taking 4 different devices and trying to run them all on the same battery.
IMO, consolidation of devices and extra features that most people can do without are what's causing the energy crunch in small electronics.
That's the basic jist of it. It's not criminal charges, so you're not presumed innocent. You have to prove your innocence to the judge, and even then, if he thinks you're partially responsible, you my need to pay partial damages.
The chances of anyone on a plane even getting to the point where they can make demands is now very slim. The second anyone on a plane starts doing funny stuff now, they get taken down.
The people will police themselves when the law cannot. It's just sad to think that the one true hack that can't be completely controlled is the human one. Social engineering will be around as long as people fail to get a clue.
I believe the idea is that it would be less of a hassle to just go somewhere that has power outlets (their house maybe?). Buying and carrying lots of laptop batteries is neither economical nor "coffee house cool".
Last time I checked, a summary included some of your own words, rather than just the copy/paste function.