Lost property value may in fact be a solid argument. In a world where many city dwellers have neighbors just the other side of an apartment or semi-detached home wall many people choose rural locations, high fences or bushes for the added seclusion even if it means a bit of a commute. By trespassing onto this private property to take pictures that have been posted for the whole world to see, this couple would have trouble marketing their house that way and may not be able to get as high a price because of it.
Can't be too careful. What if there was an article in the Times about Iran using aborted, homosexual, spotted owls to smuggle WMD in a plot to cover up Enron? You'd look silly if you weren't "in the know"
No, you have a point. I guess "non-emergency" was too vague. There are calls that require police involvement that -don't- require 911/999 as you've mentioned. They shouldn't be fined, just informed. The people calling about what the weather's like out or their preference for corned beef over turkey are the ones I meant.
For the most part the pranksters are:
a) Teenagers
b) Drunk
c) Stupid
d) some combination of the above
I think you'll find the percentage of pranksters calling in about their broken toaster using a compromised PBX is rather small compared to the above group(s).
People have no respect for anyone any more, themselves included. If they want them to stop they should hit them where it hurts, in their wallet. Even a small $50 fine for a non-emergency 999/911 call would be enough to deter pranksters.
F = ma kind of bites you in the ass when that 2 tons slides off the side of an icy road. I live in Canada and see far more SUVs in the ditch than small cars, mostly because most small car owners get snow tires while SUV owners get that, "I have 4WD. Why do I need snow tires?" mentality.
I sent them an email through their customer service email form:
Hello,
Your online version of scrabble is horribly done. It takes as long as a couple minutes to load a game and doesn't have the features that Scrabulous did such as a notepad and even the SOWPODS word list. I can understand wanting to protect your intellectual property, but Scrabulous revived Scrabble in the hearts of many people (some of which I'm sure purchased the board game due solely to their efforts). Instead of working with them to create a truly great official online Scrabble, you've sued them off the net and tried to take their place with a shoddy 2nd rate alternative. That shows a greedy, broken business model that values lawyers over ingenuity. I will be boycotting Scrabble and Hasbro over this fiasco. I truly hope that Hasbro's image suffers because of this.
Regards,
Dan L
The boycott may not actually do anything, but I try to talk with my wallet in situations like this where I'm disappointed in a company. The lawyers over common sense theme seems to come up more and more often these days and I'm sick of it.
If these guys can do Scrabble so well, why not encourage them to do other Hasbro games in a way that makes Hasbro money?
Exactly. What ever happened to hiring talented people who've shown the ability to produce and market your product? Look at how successful counter-strike was. I know that's slightly different as Half-life was built around the idea of being modded, but still the principle is the same. There's too many lawyers and not enough business people making decisions in big companies these days.
All good questions, but more importantly:
Is his Thetan allowed in with him? Does it have it's own ticket? And being an Operating Thetan can he send it alone to accept any awards?
It -keeps- you grounded. If the workspace is in a room with a rug or you're wearing fabric, you can generate static after you've touched the frame to (temporarily) ground yourself. Most of us don't have a static free work station at home and don't do repairs in the kitchen naked, so it's possible to generate enough static while working to fry something sensitive like RAM or a CPU.
So true. I never wore a static strap until I fried a $200 stick of RAM using the, "It's never happened before. Why would I bother?" excuse. Now I use one religiously and tell everyone I know who does hobby computer work they should invest the $10 to do the same. Mostly I hear my old, "It's never happened. Why bother?" adage thrown back at me and I just chuckle, "Yet."
So, who gets sued when they fail to block something?
My little snowflake was just looking for an article on the young Canadian beaver and found THIS?!? Someone needs to pay Or will it get used as a defense in court?
Your honor, I have an addiction and need help. It's not my fault. My ISP is supposed to block this stuff. Just catch the perverts and have meaningful jail sentences. Useless legislation or attempts to tackle symptoms instead of problems just wastes time and money.
Next they should do a study on how much extra "Your computer wants to do something mundane and we need to you click another box. Confirm or Deny?" clicks contribute to RSI.
2) It will CERTAINLY generate many false positives. Then some functionary will have to check out each false positive. That person's time will be spent tending the bad-face-machine instead of being more intelligent about watching for threats. This sort of thing ultimately makes me less safe. Not only that, but it will become "The boy who cried wolf." I can see the false positive rate on this being quite high. After dozens (hundreds?) of false positives and lawsuits from people wrongly harassed etc. it will end up being ignored. Even if it is right occasionally, it won't matter.
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The library makes copyrighted works available and they aren't at fault if someone violates copyright using one.
Lost property value may in fact be a solid argument. In a world where many city dwellers have neighbors just the other side of an apartment or semi-detached home wall many people choose rural locations, high fences or bushes for the added seclusion even if it means a bit of a commute. By trespassing onto this private property to take pictures that have been posted for the whole world to see, this couple would have trouble marketing their house that way and may not be able to get as high a price because of it.
if you're looking for rouge cancer cells to zap then this would not prove effective.
I imagine differentiating between rouge and red would be very difficult.
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Can't be too careful. What if there was an article in the Times about Iran using aborted, homosexual, spotted owls to smuggle WMD in a plot to cover up Enron? You'd look silly if you weren't "in the know"
No, you have a point. I guess "non-emergency" was too vague. There are calls that require police involvement that -don't- require 911/999 as you've mentioned. They shouldn't be fined, just informed. The people calling about what the weather's like out or their preference for corned beef over turkey are the ones I meant.
For the most part the pranksters are:
a) Teenagers
b) Drunk
c) Stupid
d) some combination of the above
I think you'll find the percentage of pranksters calling in about their broken toaster using a compromised PBX is rather small compared to the above group(s).
People have no respect for anyone any more, themselves included. If they want them to stop they should hit them where it hurts, in their wallet. Even a small $50 fine for a non-emergency 999/911 call would be enough to deter pranksters.
F = ma kind of bites you in the ass when that 2 tons slides off the side of an icy road. I live in Canada and see far more SUVs in the ditch than small cars, mostly because most small car owners get snow tires while SUV owners get that, "I have 4WD. Why do I need snow tires?" mentality.
Exactly. I just borrowed my sister-in-law's unit for my vacation. Couldn't really do that with a built in model.
Also, choice > *. On top of upgrading being a pain, with built in you're forced into a make/model you may not like.
Hello, Your online version of scrabble is horribly done. It takes as long as a couple minutes to load a game and doesn't have the features that Scrabulous did such as a notepad and even the SOWPODS word list. I can understand wanting to protect your intellectual property, but Scrabulous revived Scrabble in the hearts of many people (some of which I'm sure purchased the board game due solely to their efforts). Instead of working with them to create a truly great official online Scrabble, you've sued them off the net and tried to take their place with a shoddy 2nd rate alternative. That shows a greedy, broken business model that values lawyers over ingenuity. I will be boycotting Scrabble and Hasbro over this fiasco. I truly hope that Hasbro's image suffers because of this. Regards, Dan L
It's available here.
The boycott may not actually do anything, but I try to talk with my wallet in situations like this where I'm disappointed in a company. The lawyers over common sense theme seems to come up more and more often these days and I'm sick of it.
If these guys can do Scrabble so well, why not encourage them to do other Hasbro games in a way that makes Hasbro money?
Exactly. What ever happened to hiring talented people who've shown the ability to produce and market your product? Look at how successful counter-strike was. I know that's slightly different as Half-life was built around the idea of being modded, but still the principle is the same. There's too many lawyers and not enough business people making decisions in big companies these days.
You're trying to start a conversation with a computer.
Cancel or Allow?
I'm not sure "Don't let Uwe Boll direct it." is a formula per se.
When?
All good questions, but more importantly:
Is his Thetan allowed in with him? Does it have it's own ticket? And being an Operating Thetan can he send it alone to accept any awards?
Whoosh...
It -keeps- you grounded. If the workspace is in a room with a rug or you're wearing fabric, you can generate static after you've touched the frame to (temporarily) ground yourself. Most of us don't have a static free work station at home and don't do repairs in the kitchen naked, so it's possible to generate enough static while working to fry something sensitive like RAM or a CPU.
So true. I never wore a static strap until I fried a $200 stick of RAM using the, "It's never happened before. Why would I bother?" excuse. Now I use one religiously and tell everyone I know who does hobby computer work they should invest the $10 to do the same. Mostly I hear my old, "It's never happened. Why bother?" adage thrown back at me and I just chuckle, "Yet."
Yeah, this will have about as much effect as roadblocking routes to drug dens. No one will ever figure out how to get their drugs!
Next they should do a study on how much extra "Your computer wants to do something mundane and we need to you click another box. Confirm or Deny?" clicks contribute to RSI.