Can you edit the contract? I know there are people on here who have successfully done that sort of thing with credit cards. Make the clause say "Comcast cannot allow the network to suck so heavily that it degrades the network for me." Now, if the changed contract is still valid, they've been given a contractual obligation to upgrade to the point where you are getting the 3 meg or whatever you're paying for.
The problem isn't detection, it's interpretation. Let's say that someone intercepts some of our traffic. This isn't hard to imagine at all. But it gets considerably more complicated once you start accounting for Doppler and interference, especially if you want to send any sort of meaningful data. Now, you have a massive chunk of encoded data that they have never seen before. It would be like going up to average Joe with the puzzle out of the back of a issue of 2600, and asking him what it says. There's no freaking way.
That's the problem with SETI. The odds on catching anything that looks remotely different from background static are very, very bad. If we did, we wouldn't know what it says. And if we could figure out what it says, it's very likely to be in a format no one understands. And then, once we've gotten through all that, we don't know the language. We have the same odds on meaningful communication with the static.
Number of tickets, lower is better, and percent of tickets solved within some time period. This should work well until you get to the point where every ticket is statistically significant in and of itself.
Why is death upon contact with oxygen special to you? Oxygen is a caustic, dangerous substance, and is necessarily expelled by most life, even life that has evolved in an environment that has plenty of oxygen.
On Mars, why should that only apply to the plants?
That would be appropriate only if he were a professional motorcycle courier who's job frequently require he drive places not easily accessible by car. It's entirely likely that his OS choice has a non-trivial impact on the effectiveness of his use of the computer for work. That would be an appropriate remark if the guy happened to be employed. The effectiveness of his OS for work is irrelevant at this point. I have very wide feet. If I want to have steel-toed boots for work, I have to have them custom ordered at not insignificant expense. Given that my job does not require steel-toed boots, they cannot be expected to pay for them.
This guy is not expecting financial loss other than the cost of buying Windows. If he doesn't want to buy Windows, then he can unplug the router for a few months. How's an unemployed guy pay for his (presumably broadband) internet connection anyway?
What if they made the drunk driver rent the ignition interlock? If he doesn't want to, he's free to not drive. Windows may be pricey, but it's not quite up to buying a new car levels yet.
It has never been claimed as a remedy. It stems from a false belief that a person can swallow their tongue, and is meant to hold the tongue in place. It is not considered expert knowledge, even by those who know it. It is in the same vein as trying to treat frostbite with snow. Claiming medical knowledge is saying "Stand back, I'm a doctor," or similar. Trying to treat the problem is not a claim of medical knowledge in and of itself.
I wasn't trying to defend the rule, just mention its existence. Yes, placing an item into the mouth of a seizure victim is potentially fatal. To the best of my knowledge the person who did such a thing would not be held liable, unless they either had or claimed to have medical training. If I knew I had a problem that could cause seizures without warning, I'd wear one of those bracelets that people with allergies to some medicines wear, only it would say: If seizing, keep everything out of my mouth. Not that the set of people who know to read those things and the set of people who stick things into the mouths of seizure victims overlap a lot, but it can't hurt.
There's a difference between giving away free bachelor's degrees and allowing students to not pay for the bachelor's degrees they earn. Hell, I might have done better in school if I was able to focus on school, instead of working full-time to pay for it. If this gets implemented, I'll go back to school in a heartbeat.
In the U.S., we have the Good Samaritan rule. If you attempt to render aid, and cause greater harm, a lack of medical knowledge is enough to keep you safe. It's intended for people who put spoons in the mouths of epileptics to keep them from swallowing their tongue during a seizure, or people who move people that happen to have back injuries, crippling them for life. "I was just trying to help," is a valid defense. If you have medical training, or if you claim medical training that you don't have, then you're still liable for your screw ups. If you should have known better, and still did something stupid, you're in trouble. If you claim to know what you're doing, and other people let you take the lead because of it, you're in trouble. Joe Sixpack tries to use the Heimlich instead of CPR, he can get away with it.
Bad Karma, in this case. Other things that can cause that are a wide range of bad mods, and only one kind of good mod. +2 Insightful -1 troll -1 overrated -1 flamebait will look like a -1 Insightful.
You could also take a VMWare snapshot before doing the coupon thing, then revert afterwards. This is exactly the kind of thing that is meant for, denying unwanted changes to a system.
They would lose profit, which is the same thing to the Tonns. I'm pretty sure that people not leaving when they're done is the big issue for them anyway.
Wisconsin Taco Bells don't have WiFi, and will not have WiFi while under the control of Tonn's Inc. The rationale of the Tonns is that WiFi would encourage people to stick around longer without ordering extra food. They would lose space to the wireless squatters, they would lose money in free soda refills. Not all businesses would want wireless internet if provided.
Well, you do keep an eye on them. If they stop following, then something is wrong, and you stop waiting for them to chase you, and start doing something else. But the first thing you do is not move close enough to the panicking person that they can grab you and use you as a flotation device, at least as I was taught. For an unconscious victim, we were supposed to do exactly what you were taught. But we had "Never let the victim lay a hand on you" drilled into our heads.
Honestly, I don't care much for Americans either. Americans have continuously let me down as far as this whole 'Government of the people, by the people, and for the people' goes. My well of patriotism is starting to run dry. Luckily, my wells of cynicism and vitriol are looking to last the rest of my life.
I'm in Wisconsin. Should the ice caps melt and the oceans rise, we will not be in trouble. I could care less if LA and San Diego and New York City turn into places like Venice. From a population control point of view, I'm all for it. We haven't had a plague or a high-casualty war for quite some time. This is causing the boom, and it needs to slow down. The sacrifice of some for the good of the rest, I suppose.
I agree about your point of a season not being representative, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the world going through temperature cycles, and that we haven't left the expected range yet. I don't feel that there's a great risk of polar caps melting away in my lifetime, and I expect to have a good long lifetime ahead of me. We have time to sit down, and calmly discuss all the options. We aren't doing that, and that rather irritates me.
Also, I'm pretty sure that China is a bigger polluter than America. All poetry aside, I don't especially care where it's going to be worst, except that if it were going to be worse here, logic would go even further out the window while panic set in. Look at people. They're morons. Look at the press. They know people are morons, and they help induce that panic. If we were actually being threatened, they would do everything they could to hinder the rescue. I'm a certified lifeguard. Do you know how to get someone who is likely to drown but still conscious out of the water? You get close enough to them that they'll start to come after you, then you make them chase you back to the shore. If you get close enough for them to grab you, they will grab you, and hold you there just to have more time. It isn't an altogether uncommon thing for a rescuer and his victim to both drown from the victim's panicked behavior.
What's the right temperature? Until someone gives us that, we're healing the planet as far as we know. Dinosaurs thrived in a climate warmer than ours. Mammoths thrived in a climate cooler than ours. We're humans. We adapt. We'll be fine.
If no one has downloaded the file, how does the RIAA know that it's copyrighted music? Maybe it's a parody. Maybe it's an original work that just happens to share a name with some other song. Happens all the time. Maybe it's some horrible person renaming files to gain the maximum number of downloads, and it's actually goatse.jpg. Once the RIAA downloads the file itself, then the file has been shared, and if you were not a legitimate distributor of the file in question, lawsuits can occur. Anything else doesn't make any sense.
You can read Shakespeare. I can read Shakespeare. But you seriously think you could sit one of the texting youths of today down, hand him A Midsummer Nights Dream, and have him even make it to the second act? How about Hamlet? Think they know the words quietus, bodkin, or fardels? How about Othello? What percent do you think would know what a Moor is? English has changed, despite your greater than average abilities therein.
20 year old technology is not necessarily obsolete. It certainly isn't useless for teaching purposes. A hard drive now functions in much the same way as a hard drive then. Memory improvements have been technical, there hasn't been a major change in the workings of volatile memory since SDRAM. Just because the Internet has more information now, and people use Charter or Earthlink or whatever instead of CompuServe and Prodigy, doesn't mean that it's obsolete tech, and should be ignored. Hell, people still use IRC, and that has only changed in number of nodes.
I suppose programming languages might fit your description. After all, it's not like anyone uses FORTRAN or COBOL or PASCAL these days. Certainly not something like C or LISP, those are ancient and useless. So, unless you're talking about ZIP disks, what has had less than a 20 year span for valued knowledge?
Unfortunately, you just can't manage to get a grip on it. Maybe you should let the autistic, mentally handicapped kid be the DM, you have much less to try and think about as a player.
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Can you edit the contract? I know there are people on here who have successfully done that sort of thing with credit cards. Make the clause say "Comcast cannot allow the network to suck so heavily that it degrades the network for me." Now, if the changed contract is still valid, they've been given a contractual obligation to upgrade to the point where you are getting the 3 meg or whatever you're paying for.
The problem isn't detection, it's interpretation. Let's say that someone intercepts some of our traffic. This isn't hard to imagine at all. But it gets considerably more complicated once you start accounting for Doppler and interference, especially if you want to send any sort of meaningful data. Now, you have a massive chunk of encoded data that they have never seen before. It would be like going up to average Joe with the puzzle out of the back of a issue of 2600, and asking him what it says. There's no freaking way.
That's the problem with SETI. The odds on catching anything that looks remotely different from background static are very, very bad. If we did, we wouldn't know what it says. And if we could figure out what it says, it's very likely to be in a format no one understands. And then, once we've gotten through all that, we don't know the language. We have the same odds on meaningful communication with the static.
Number of tickets, lower is better, and percent of tickets solved within some time period. This should work well until you get to the point where every ticket is statistically significant in and of itself.
Why is death upon contact with oxygen special to you? Oxygen is a caustic, dangerous substance, and is necessarily expelled by most life, even life that has evolved in an environment that has plenty of oxygen.
On Mars, why should that only apply to the plants?
This guy is not expecting financial loss other than the cost of buying Windows. If he doesn't want to buy Windows, then he can unplug the router for a few months. How's an unemployed guy pay for his (presumably broadband) internet connection anyway?
What if they made the drunk driver rent the ignition interlock? If he doesn't want to, he's free to not drive. Windows may be pricey, but it's not quite up to buying a new car levels yet.
A friend of mine had his minivan stolen. It was returned, three days and 8 miles later. We have never stopped giving him shit for that.
It has never been claimed as a remedy. It stems from a false belief that a person can swallow their tongue, and is meant to hold the tongue in place. It is not considered expert knowledge, even by those who know it. It is in the same vein as trying to treat frostbite with snow. Claiming medical knowledge is saying "Stand back, I'm a doctor," or similar. Trying to treat the problem is not a claim of medical knowledge in and of itself.
I wasn't trying to defend the rule, just mention its existence. Yes, placing an item into the mouth of a seizure victim is potentially fatal. To the best of my knowledge the person who did such a thing would not be held liable, unless they either had or claimed to have medical training. If I knew I had a problem that could cause seizures without warning, I'd wear one of those bracelets that people with allergies to some medicines wear, only it would say: If seizing, keep everything out of my mouth. Not that the set of people who know to read those things and the set of people who stick things into the mouths of seizure victims overlap a lot, but it can't hurt.
There's a difference between giving away free bachelor's degrees and allowing students to not pay for the bachelor's degrees they earn. Hell, I might have done better in school if I was able to focus on school, instead of working full-time to pay for it. If this gets implemented, I'll go back to school in a heartbeat.
In the U.S., we have the Good Samaritan rule. If you attempt to render aid, and cause greater harm, a lack of medical knowledge is enough to keep you safe. It's intended for people who put spoons in the mouths of epileptics to keep them from swallowing their tongue during a seizure, or people who move people that happen to have back injuries, crippling them for life. "I was just trying to help," is a valid defense. If you have medical training, or if you claim medical training that you don't have, then you're still liable for your screw ups. If you should have known better, and still did something stupid, you're in trouble. If you claim to know what you're doing, and other people let you take the lead because of it, you're in trouble. Joe Sixpack tries to use the Heimlich instead of CPR, he can get away with it.
Bad Karma, in this case. Other things that can cause that are a wide range of bad mods, and only one kind of good mod. +2 Insightful -1 troll -1 overrated -1 flamebait will look like a -1 Insightful.
You could also take a VMWare snapshot before doing the coupon thing, then revert afterwards. This is exactly the kind of thing that is meant for, denying unwanted changes to a system.
They would lose profit, which is the same thing to the Tonns. I'm pretty sure that people not leaving when they're done is the big issue for them anyway.
Wisconsin Taco Bells don't have WiFi, and will not have WiFi while under the control of Tonn's Inc. The rationale of the Tonns is that WiFi would encourage people to stick around longer without ordering extra food. They would lose space to the wireless squatters, they would lose money in free soda refills. Not all businesses would want wireless internet if provided.
If there was a gas station that charged a fee per month instead of by gallon because everyone nearby drove Yugos, and then you go buy a Hummer.
Well, you do keep an eye on them. If they stop following, then something is wrong, and you stop waiting for them to chase you, and start doing something else. But the first thing you do is not move close enough to the panicking person that they can grab you and use you as a flotation device, at least as I was taught. For an unconscious victim, we were supposed to do exactly what you were taught. But we had "Never let the victim lay a hand on you" drilled into our heads.
Honestly, I don't care much for Americans either. Americans have continuously let me down as far as this whole 'Government of the people, by the people, and for the people' goes. My well of patriotism is starting to run dry. Luckily, my wells of cynicism and vitriol are looking to last the rest of my life.
I'm in Wisconsin. Should the ice caps melt and the oceans rise, we will not be in trouble. I could care less if LA and San Diego and New York City turn into places like Venice. From a population control point of view, I'm all for it. We haven't had a plague or a high-casualty war for quite some time. This is causing the boom, and it needs to slow down. The sacrifice of some for the good of the rest, I suppose.
I agree about your point of a season not being representative, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the world going through temperature cycles, and that we haven't left the expected range yet. I don't feel that there's a great risk of polar caps melting away in my lifetime, and I expect to have a good long lifetime ahead of me. We have time to sit down, and calmly discuss all the options. We aren't doing that, and that rather irritates me.
Also, I'm pretty sure that China is a bigger polluter than America. All poetry aside, I don't especially care where it's going to be worst, except that if it were going to be worse here, logic would go even further out the window while panic set in. Look at people. They're morons. Look at the press. They know people are morons, and they help induce that panic. If we were actually being threatened, they would do everything they could to hinder the rescue. I'm a certified lifeguard. Do you know how to get someone who is likely to drown but still conscious out of the water? You get close enough to them that they'll start to come after you, then you make them chase you back to the shore. If you get close enough for them to grab you, they will grab you, and hold you there just to have more time. It isn't an altogether uncommon thing for a rescuer and his victim to both drown from the victim's panicked behavior.
I want all these microexpression readers to sit down at a poker table with my friends. If bluffs are still viable, then these people are useless.
What's the right temperature? Until someone gives us that, we're healing the planet as far as we know. Dinosaurs thrived in a climate warmer than ours. Mammoths thrived in a climate cooler than ours. We're humans. We adapt. We'll be fine.
If no one has downloaded the file, how does the RIAA know that it's copyrighted music? Maybe it's a parody. Maybe it's an original work that just happens to share a name with some other song. Happens all the time. Maybe it's some horrible person renaming files to gain the maximum number of downloads, and it's actually goatse.jpg. Once the RIAA downloads the file itself, then the file has been shared, and if you were not a legitimate distributor of the file in question, lawsuits can occur. Anything else doesn't make any sense.
What you've seen kids 'right'? Can't spell the 'simplist' of words? I don't think we can put all of the blame on the kids...
You can read Shakespeare. I can read Shakespeare. But you seriously think you could sit one of the texting youths of today down, hand him A Midsummer Nights Dream, and have him even make it to the second act? How about Hamlet? Think they know the words quietus, bodkin, or fardels? How about Othello? What percent do you think would know what a Moor is? English has changed, despite your greater than average abilities therein.
20 year old technology is not necessarily obsolete. It certainly isn't useless for teaching purposes. A hard drive now functions in much the same way as a hard drive then. Memory improvements have been technical, there hasn't been a major change in the workings of volatile memory since SDRAM. Just because the Internet has more information now, and people use Charter or Earthlink or whatever instead of CompuServe and Prodigy, doesn't mean that it's obsolete tech, and should be ignored. Hell, people still use IRC, and that has only changed in number of nodes.
I suppose programming languages might fit your description. After all, it's not like anyone uses FORTRAN or COBOL or PASCAL these days. Certainly not something like C or LISP, those are ancient and useless. So, unless you're talking about ZIP disks, what has had less than a 20 year span for valued knowledge?
I'm on Mars, and believe me, we're worse off than you. How dare you not share your supply of hawt chicks you insensitive clod!
Unfortunately, you just can't manage to get a grip on it. Maybe you should let the autistic, mentally handicapped kid be the DM, you have much less to try and think about as a player.